{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/gbar/gbar038.htm","path":"isl/gbar/gbar038.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/gbar/gbar038.htm","text":"Then answered John: 'Master, let us wash ourselves as God\ncommanded by Moses.'\nJesus said: 'Think ye that I am come to destroy the law and\nthe prophets? Verily I say unto you, as God liveth, I am not come to\ndestroy it, but rather to observe it. For every prophet hath observed\nthe law of God and all that God by the other prophets hath spoken.\nAs God liveth, in whose presence my soul standeth, no one that\nbreaketh one least precept can be pleasing to God, but shall be least\nin the kingdom of God, for he shall have no part there. Moreover I\nsay unto you, that one syllable of the law of God cannot be broken\nwithout the gravest sin. But I do you to wit that it is necessary to\nobserve that which God saith by Isaiah the prophet, with these\nwords: \"Wash you and be clean, take away your thoughts from\nmine eyes.\"\n'Verily I say unto you, that all the water of the sea will not wash\nhim who with his heart loveth iniquities. And furthermore I say unto\nyou, that no one will make prayer pleasing to God if he be not washed,\nbut will burden his soul with sin like to idolatry.\n'Believe me, in sooth, that if man should make prayer to God\nas is fitting, he would obtain all that he should ask. Remember\nMoses the servant of God, who with his prayer scourged Egypt,\nopened the Red Sea, and there drowned Pharaoh and his host.\nRemember Joshua, who made the sun stand still, Samuel, who\nsmote with fear the innumerable host of the Philistines, Elijah, who\nmade the fire to rain from heaven, Elisha raised a dead man, and so\nmany other holy prophets, who by prayer obtained all that they\nasked. But those men truly did not seek their own in their matters,\nbut sought only God and his honour.'","title":"The Gospel of Barnabas - chapter 38","type":"page"}