Category:Gospel of the Nazarenes (text)
The Gospel of the Nazarenes is a 2nd-century (?) Jewish Christian Gospel, now in collections of NT Apocrypha.
Overview
The (lost) Gospel of the Nazaraeans survives only in the fragmentary form of quotations and allusions. It appears to have been an expanded and slightly rewritten version of the Gospel of Matthew.
Gospel of the Nazarenes, sources
Jerome
Addition between Mt 3:12 and 3:13 -- "...but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire." See, the Lord's mother and his brothers were saying to him, "John the Baptist is baptizing for removing sins; let's go and get baptized by him too." He said to them: "How have I sinned, so that I need him to baptize me? Unless maybe what I've just said is [a sin of] ignorance." Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
Pseudo-Origen
Variant/Addition to Mt 19:14-24 -- The other of the rich men said to him "Master, what good thing shall I do and live?" He said to him "Man, perform the law and the prophets." He answered him "I have performed them." He said to him "Go, sell all that thou hast and divide it to the poor, and come, follow me." But the rich man began to scratch his head, and it pleased him not. And the Lord said to him "How can you say 'I have performed the law and the prophets'? seeing that it is written in the law 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,' and look, many of your brothers, sons of Abraham, are clad with dung, dying for hunger, and your house is full of much goods, and there goes out therefrom nought at all unto them." And he turned and said to Simon his disciple, sitting by him, "Simon, son of John, it is easier for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle than a rich man into the kingdom of the heavens."
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