Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 61
gives Torah, and him who keeps Torah. Having made these
and similar statements, the Zealot also was silent. After him
Bar-Naba, who also is called Mattityahu, who was substituted
as a sholiach in the place of Yahudah of Keriot, began to exhort
the people that they should not regard Yahshua with hatred,
nor speak evil of Him. For it were far more proper, even for
one who might be in ignorance or in doubt concerning Yahshua,
to love than to hate Him. For Yahweh has affixed a re-
Chapter LXI: Chaiyafa Answered
hshua,
saying that He spoke vain things, for He said that the
poor are blessed; and promised earthly rewards; and placed
the chief gift in an earthly inheritance; and promised that
those who maintain righteousness shall be satisfied with meat
and drink; and many things of this sort He is charged with
teaching. Thoma, in reply, proves that his accusation is frivolous;
showing that the prophets, in whom Chaiyafa believes,
taught these things much more, and did not show in what
manner these things are to be, or how they are to be understood;
whereas Yahshua pointed out how they are to be taken.
And when he had spoken these things, and others of like kind,
Chapter LXLI: Foolishness of Preaching
the way of warning and sometimes in that of accusation, said
that, I ought for the future to refrain from preaching Moshiach
Yahshua, lest I should do it to my own destruction, and lest,
being deceived myself, I should also deceive others. Then,
moreover, he charged me with presumption, because, though I
was unlearned, a fisherman, and a rustic, I dared to assume
the office of a teacher. As he spoke these things, and many