The Oxyrhynchus 1224 Gospel

Papyrus Oxyrhnchus 1224

To quote Andrew Bernhard, author of The Lost Gospels, The following translation is based solely on the Greek text printed in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. 10. POxy 1224 comes from a papyrus book which probably had pages that were probably about 20 lines long. The top portions of six pages (139, [138 or 140], 173, 174, 175, and 176) have been preserved in two fragments. The fragments which are separated by a substantial amount of material: fragment 1 is numbered as page 139, while the earliest visible page number on fragment 2 is 174. It is therefore not certain that the two fragments belong to the same text, although the possibility cannot be ruled out

 

 

Fragment 1: recto
139

01 [ . . . ] in everything
02 [ . . . ]. Truly,
03 [I say to you . . . ]

Fragment 1: verso
01 he will [ . . . ]. You [ . . . ]
02 [ . . . ]
03 [ . . . ]

Fragment 2: recto, col. ii
1[73]

01 It weighed me down. And [approach-]
02 ing [i]n a vis[ion], Jesus [said,]
03 "Why are you dis[cour]aged? For not [ . . . ]
04 [y]ou, but the [ . . . ]
05 [ . . . ]

Fragment 2: verso, col. i
174

01 [ . . . ] "you [sai]d, although you are not answer-
02 [ing. What then did] you [re]nounce? W[h]at
03 [is] the ne[w] doct[rine] [that they say]
04 [you] te[ach, or what is the] new [b]a[ptism]
05 [that you proclaim? Ans]wer and . . .

Fragment 2: verso, col. ii
[175]

01 When the scribes an[d Pharisees]
02 and priests sa[w hi]m,
03 they were angry [that with sin]ners
04 (right in the middle of them) [he was reclining.]
05 But when Jesus heard, he said,
06 "Those who are [healthy ha]ve [no need]
07 [of a physician . . . ]

Fragment 2: recto, col. ii
[1]76

01 [ . . . a]nd p[r]ay for
02 your [ene]mies. For the one who is not
03 [against yo]u is for you.
04 [The one who i]s far away [today], tomorrow
05 will be [near you] and in
06 [ . . . ] the advers[ary]
07 [ . . . ]