Holy Week, pt 3: Solemn Saturday, March 30, 2013... from Jehanne de Quillan's THE GOSPEL OF THE BELOVED COMPANION: [and the story continues]

42:14 THIS IS WHAT MY MASTER HAS TOLD AND SHOWN ME.  AND ONLY FROM THE TRUTH I TELL YOU, THAT ALL THAT I HAVE REVEALED TO YOU IS TRUE.

42:15 WHEN THE MIGDALAH HAD TOLD OF ALL THAT YESHUA HAD SAID AND DONE, SHE FELL SILENT, SINCE IT WAS IN THAT SILENCE THAT YESHUA HAD SPOKEN WITH HER, AND REVEALED THESE TRUTHS. 

43:1 MANY OF THE DISCIPLES DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE HAD SAID, AND GRUMBLED AGAINST HER AMONGST THEMSELVES. 

43:2 ANDREAS THEREFORE ANSWERED AND SAID TO THE BRETHEREN, “SAY WHAT YOU WISH TO SAY ABOUT WHAT SHE HAS SAID. I AT LEAST DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE RABBI SAID THIS, FOR THESE TEACHINGS ARE CERTAINLY STRANGE AND COMPLICATED IDEAS.”

43:3 SHIMON KEFA ANSWERED AND SPOKE CONCERNING THESE SAME THINGS. HE QUESTIONED THEM ABOUT YESHUA AND SAID, “DID HE REALLY SPEAK PRIVATELY WITH THIS WOMAN AND NOT OPENLY TO US? ARE WE TO TURN ABOUT AND ALL LISTEN TO HER?  DID HE PREFER HER TO US?”

43:4 THEN THE MIGDALAH WEPT AND SAID TO SHIMON KEFA, “MY BROTHER SHIMON KEFA, WHAT DO YOU THINK?  DO YOU THINK THAT I HAVE THOUGHT THIS UP MYSELF IN MY HEART, OR THAT I AM LYING ABOUT YESHUA?  ONLY FROM THE TRUTH AGAIN I TELL YOU THAT WHAT I HAVE SAID IS THE TRUTH.”

43:5 AND LEVI ANSWERED AND SAID TO SHIMON KEFA, “SHIMON KEFA, YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HOT-TEMPERED. NOW I SEE YOU CONTENDING AGAINST THIS WOMAN LIKE THE ADVERSARIES. BUT IF THE RABBI MADE HER WORTHY, WHO ARE YOU INDEED TO REJECT HER?  SURELY AS HIS COMPANION, YESHUA KNEW HER BETTER THAN ALL OTHERS.  THAT IS WHY HE LOVED HER MORE THAN US. 

43:6 RATHER, LET US BE ASHAMED AND DO AS SHE SAYS. LET US PUT ON PERFECT HUMANITY AND ACQUIRE IT AS SHE HAS DONE, AND SEPARATE AS HE COMMANDED US AND PREACH THE TESTIMONY OF THE SON OF HUMANITY, NOT LAYING DOWN ANY OTHER RULE OR OTHER LAW BEYOND THAT WHICH HE GAVE US.”   

43:7 AND WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, THEY WERE DIVIDED, AND ARGUED AMONGST THEMSELVES. AND THEREFORE THEY BEGAN TO LEAVE SEPARATELY AND GO FORTH TO PROCLAIM AND TEACH AND PREACH WHAT THEY UNDERSTOOD OF THE WORDS OF THE RABBI.