work of the Pharisees, and was not one himself.
While I thus thought, the man turned to a group of men clad in the same rustic garb, saying, "Be ye rather approved money-changers, holding fast the good and casting forth the false;"[1] and, after other words, he turned from them and went up the steps leading to the Women's Court.
Now thou knowest, Aglaophonos, that at the entrance of this court standeth an inscription which saith, "Let none of alien birth pass within the Temple cloisters: he that transgresses is guilty of death." As the man with the scourge would enter the Women's Court, the Roman sentry stopped him, and pointed to this inscription with his spear. He shook his head, saying in faulty Greek, "Jewish I am," and showed the soldier fringes of his garment after the Jewish fashion. Then the sentry drew back, and the man passed through.
Thereupon I went up to the men to
- ↑ This, like most other utterances of Jesus, found in this book but not in the Gospels, is also found in the early patristic literature.—Ed.
