The Author of Life Everlasting

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The Author of Life Everlasting

Chapter 3

Henceforth, You Shall Catch Men unto Life

And Yeshua left Nazareth, and he went down and dwelt in Capernaum, by the side of the lake, on the confines of Zebulon and Naphthali. From that time began Yeshua to proclaim the tidings, of the sovereignty of Yahweh, and said, “The time is completed, and the sovereignty of Yahweh has approached. Repent you, and believe the tidings.” And as Yeshua walked on the shore of the lake of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Cephas, and Andrew his brother, who were casting nets into the lake; for they were fishermen; and Yeshua said to them, “Follow me; and I will cause you to become fishers of men.” And immediately, they left their nets, and went after him; and as Yeshua pass on a little from their, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, who were mending their nets; and Yeshua called them; and immediately they left Zebedee in the boat, with the hired servants, and went after him; and Yeshua traveled over all Galilee, and he taught in their synagogues, and proclaimed the tidings of the sovereignty; and healed every disease and sickness among the people; and his fame spread through all Syria; and they brought to him all them that were very sick with diverse diseases, and them that were afflicted with pains, and unclean spirits, and lunatics and paralytics; and Yeshua healed them; and there followed Yeshua great crowds from Galilee, and from the Ten Cities, and from Jerusalem, and from Judah, and from beyond the Jordan; and when Yeshua saw the crowds, he ascended a mountain; and when he was seated, his disciples drew near him, and Yeshua opened his mouth, and taught them, and said, “Happy are the poor in the land, for the sovereignty of Yahweh is theirs! Happy are the mourners, for they shall be comforted! Happy are the meek, for they shall inherit the land! Happy are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satiated! Happy are the merciful, for on them shall be mercies! Happy are the clean in heart, for they shall behold Yahweh! Happy are the cultivators of peace, for they shall be called sons of Yahweh! Happy are they that are persecuted as a result of righteousness, for the sovereignty of Yahweh is theirs!

Blessed are you, when they revile you and persecute you, and speak every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account. At that time, rejoice and be glad; for your reward in heaven is great; for so they persecuted the prophets that were before you. You are the salt of the land! But if the salt become insipid, with what shall it be seasoned? It is fit for nothing; but to be thrown out, and be trodden under foot by men. You are the light of the land! A city built upon a hill, cannot be concealed; and they do not light a lamp, and place it under a basket; but upon a light-stand, and it gives light to all that are in the house. Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who is in heaven. Do not suppose that I have come to subvert the law or the prophets; I have come not to subvert, but to fulfill; for truly I say to you, that until heaven and earth shall pass away, one iota or one letter shall not pass from the law, until all shall be fulfilled. Therefore, whoever shall break one of these small commands, and shall so inculcate on the children of men, shall be called little in the sovereignty of Yahweh; but everyone that shall do and teach them, shall be called great in the sovereignty of Yahweh; for I say to you, that unless your righteousness shall abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the sovereignty of Yahweh. You have heard that it was said to the ancients, you shall not kill; and everyone that kills, is obnoxious to judgment; and everyone that says to his brother, I spit on you, is obnoxious to the Sanhedrin; and everyone that shall say, abnormal, is obnoxious to hell fire. If it should happen therefore, that while you are presenting your offering upon the altar, and right there you remember that your brother has any grievance against you, leave your offering there upon the altar, and first go and make peace with your brother, and then come back and present your offering. Try to get reconciled with your accuser promptly, while you are going on the road with him; for your accuser might surrender you to the judge, and the judge would commit you to the jailer, and you would be cast into the house of prisoners. Truly I say to you, you will not come out from there until you have paid the last farthing. You have heard that it had been said, you shall not commit adultery; but I say to you, that whoever gazes on a woman with concupiscence, at once commits adultery with her in his heart. If therefore, your right eye should cause you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you; because it is better for you, that your one member perish, than that your whole body fall into hell; and if your right hand should cause you to stumble cut if off, and cast it from you; because it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body hell. It has been said, that if a man will put away his wife, he must write her a bill of divorcement; but I say to you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for the offense of fornication, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is separated, but not divorced, commits adultery. Again, you have heard that it has been said to the ancients, you shall not swear falsely by the name of Yahweh; for Yahweh will not clear one who swears falsely by his name; but I say to you, swear not at all; not by heaven, for it is the throne of Yahweh; and not by the earth, for it is the footstool under his feet; and likewise not by Jerusalem, for it is the city of a great king. Moreover, you shall not swear by your head for you cannot make one hair in it either black or white; but let your words be, yes, yes; or no, no; for whatever is beyond these is a deception. You have heard that it has been said, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; but I say to you, resist not evil; but if a person smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if one is disposed to sue you, and get away your tunic, relinquish to him also your cloak. Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Whoever demands of you, give to him; and whoever wishes to borrow of you, deny him not; but I say to you, love your enemies; and bless him that curses you; and do good to him that hates you; and pray for them that lead you in bonds, and that persecute you; that you may be children of your Father that is in heaven, who causes his sun to rise upon the good and upon the bad, and sends his rain upon the righteous and upon the unrighteous. For, if you love them that love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do this? And if you salute your brethren only, what do you that is not common? Do not even the tax collectors do this? Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

Be cautious in your almsgiving, not to perform it before men, so that you may be seen of them, otherwise, you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Therefore, when you do alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get praise from men. Truly I say to you, they have gotten their reward; but you, when doing alms, let not your left hand know what your right hand does; that your alms may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly; and when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who are fond of standing up in the synagogues and at the corners of streets to pray, so that they may be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have gotten their reward; but as for you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber and lock your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly; and when you pray, be not garrulous like the Gentiles; for they expect to be heard for their abundance of words. Therefore, be not like them; for your Father knows what is needful for you, before you ask him. In this manner, therefore, pray you; our Father, who is in heaven, hollowed be your name; your sovereignty come; your will be done; as in heaven, so in the land; give us our needful bread, this day; and forgive us our offenses, as we have forgiven our offenders; and do not let us enter into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for yours is the sovereignty, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. For, if you forgive men their faults, your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you; but if you shall not forgive men, your Father also forgives not you your faults; and when you fast, be not sad like the hypocrites; for they distort their faces, that they may be seen of men to fast. Truly I say to you, they have gotten their reward; but, as for you, when you fast, wash you your face, and anoint your head; that you may not be seen by men as a faster, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret, will recompense you. Lay not up for yourselves treasures in the land, where moth and rust spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where no moth and no rust can spoil, and no thieves dig through nor steal; for where your treasure is, there will your heart also be. The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore, your eye shall be sound, your whole body will be luminous; but if your eye shall be diseased, your whole body will be dark. If then, the light that is in you be darkness, how great will be your darkness! No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will honor the one and neglect the other. You cannot serve Yahweh and mammon. Therefore, I say to you, be not anxious about your life, what you shall eat, and what you shall drink; nor about your body, how you shall clothe yourselves. Is not the life more important than food, and the body than raiment? Look at the birds of the sky; which sow not, and reap not, and gather not into storehouses, but your Father who is in heaven feeds them. Are not you more important than they? And who of you that shall be anxious, can add to his stature a cubit? And about raiment, why are you anxious? Consider the lilies of the desert, in what manner they grow. They toil not; and they spin not. Yet I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory, was arrayed like one of them; and if Yahweh so clothe the grass of the field, which exists today, and tomorrow falls into the fireplace, will he not much more clothe you, you small in believing? Therefore, be not anxious; nor say, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink; or wherewith we be clothed? For, all these things the people of the world seek after; and your Father, who is in heaven, knows that all these things are needful to you; but seek you first the sovereignty of Yahweh, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore be not anxious about the morrow; for the morrow has its own anxieties. Sufficient for the day, is its own evil.

Judge not, that you be not judged; for with the judgment that you judge, you shall be judged; and by the measure that you measure, shall it be measured to you; and why observe you the splinter in your brother’s eye, and regard not the beam that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, allow me to pluck the splinter from your eye; and lo, a beam is in your own eye. You hypocrite, pluck first the beam from your own eye; and then you will see clearly, to pluck the splinter out of your brother’s eye. Give not a Holy thing to dogs; and cast not your pearls before swine; lest they tread them under their feet, and turn and lacerate you. Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For, everyone that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened; for what man is there among you, of whom if his son ask bread, will he reach him a stone? Or if he ask of him a fish, will he reach him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him? Whatsoever you would that men should do to you; so also do you to them; for this is the law and the prophets. Enter you in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the road which leads to destruction, and many are those who travel on it. How narrow the gate, and how difficult is the road which leads to life, and few are those who are found on it. Beware of false prophets; who come to you in the garb of sheep, but internally they are rapacious wolves; and from their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes; or figs from thistles? So every good tree bears good fruits; but a bad tree bears bad fruits. A good tree cannot bear bad fruits; nor can a bad tree bear good fruits. Every tree that bears not good fruits, is cut down, and consigned to the fire. Wherefore, by their fruits you shall know them. Not whoever may say to me, Yeshua, Yeshua, will enter into the sovereignty of Yahweh; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Yeshua, Yeshua, have we not prophesied in your name? And in your name cast out unclean spirits? And in your name do many works of power? And then will I declare to them; I never knew you. Depart from me, you doers of evil. Everyone therefore, that hears these my discourses, and does them, will be like to a wise man, one that built his house upon a rock; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew; and they rushed upon that house; and it fell not, for its foundations were laid upon a rock; and everyone that hears these my discourses, and does them not, will be like a foolish man that built his house upon sand; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew; and they rushed upon that house, and it fell; and great was the ruin of it.” And so it was, that when Yeshua had ended these discourses, the crowds were astonished at his teaching; for he taught them as one having authority; and not as their Scribes and Pharisees.

And as Yeshua descended from the mountain, great crowds gathered around him; and behold, a leper came and did homage to him, and said, “Sir, if you wish, you can make me clean.” And Yeshua stretched forth his hand, touched him, and said, “I do wish it; be you clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed; and Yeshua said to him, “See, you tell no man; but go, show yourself to the priests, and present an offering as Moses enjoined for a testimony to them.” And when Yeshua had entered into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, and besought him, and said, “Sir, my child lies at home, paralyzed and badly afflicted.” Yeshua said to him, “I will come and heal him.” The centurion replied, and said, “Sir, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof; but speak the word only, and my child will be healed; for I also am a man under authority, and there are soldiers under my hands, and I say to this one, go, and he goes; and to another, come, and he comes; and to my servant, do this thing and he does it.” And when Yeshua heard this, he admired it; and he said to those walking with him, “Truly I say to you, I have not found believing like this even in Israel; and I say to you, that many shall come from the East, and from the West, and shall recline with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the sovereignty of Yahweh; but the sons of the kingdom shall go forth into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the grinding of the teeth.” And Yeshua said to the centurion, “Go; be it to you as you have believed.” And his child was healed in that same hour; and Yeshua immediately taught on the Sabbath, in their synagogues; and they were astonished at his teachings, for he taught them, as having authority, and not as their Scribes; and in their synagogue was a man, in whom was an unclean spirit; and it cried out, with a loud voice, and said, “What have I to do with you? Let me alone; what have I to do with you, Yeshua? Have you come to destroy me? I know you, who you are, the Holy one of Yahweh.” And Yeshua rebuked it, and said, “Shut your mouth; and come out of him.” And the unclean spirit threw him down in the midst, and cried with a loud voice; and came out of him, having not harmed him at all; and they were all amazed, and wonder seized everyone, and inquired one of another, and said, “What a word is this! What new teaching is this? For, with authority and power, he commands the unclean spirits, and they obey him, and they come out.” And Yeshua’s fame went out into all the surrounding region; and Yeshua retired from the synagogue, and he entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John; and the mother-in-law of Simon was lying sick, afflicted with a severe fever; and they besought Yeshua in her behalf; and he came, and he stood over her, and took her hand, and raised her up, and rebuked the fever; and immediately the fever left her; and immediately she arose and ministered to them; and when it was evening, at the setting of the sun, all those that had sick persons, afflicted with divers diseases, they brought many possessed with unclean spirits, and all the city was collected at the door, and he laid his hand on every one of them, and healed them; and he cast out may unclean spirits by a word; crying out and saying, “You are the Messiah, the son of Yahweh.” And Yeshua rebuked them, and suffered them not to say, that they knew him to be the Messiah; and in the morning, Yeshua rose much before the others, and retired to a solitary place, and there prayed; and Simon and his associates sought for him; and when they found him, they said to him, “Everybody is seeking for you.” And Yeshua said to them, “Lets go into the adjacent villages and towns; for there also I will preach, because therefore was I sent.” And the crowds sought him, and went out to him, and held him fast, that he might not retire from them; and Yeshua said to them, “It behooves me to announce the sovereignty of Yahweh to other cities also; for therefore was I sent.” And Yeshua preached in all their synagogues, in all Galilee, and cast out unclean spirits.

And it occurred, that a crowd gathered about Yeshua, to hear the word of Yahweh; and Yeshua was standing by the side of the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats standing near the lake, and the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets; and one of them belonged to Simon Cephas; and Yeshua entered and sat in it; and he told them to draw off a little from the shore, into the lake; and he seated himself, and taught the people from the boat; and when he ceased from speaking, he said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep, and cast your net for a catch.” Simon answered, saying to him, “Teacher, all the night we have toiled, and have caught nothing; but, at your bidding, I will cast the net.” And when they had done so, they inclosed very many fishes, so that the net was rent; and they made signs to their associates, in the other boat, to come and help them; and when they came, they filled both the boats so that they were near to sinking; and when Simon Cephas saw it, he fell before the feet of Yeshua, and said to him, “I beseech you, my teacher, that you leave me, for I am a sinful man.” For astonishment had seized him, and all that were with him, at the catch of fishes which they had caught; and in like manner also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners of Simon; but Yeshua said, “Fear you not; henceforth, you shall catch men unto life.” And they brought the boats to the land; and they left all and followed him; and when Yeshua was in one of the cities, a man came all full of leprosy and saw Yeshua, he fell upon his face at his feet, and besought him, saying, “Sir, if you will, you can cleanse me.” And Yeshua had compassion on him, and stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I will it; be you clean.” And in that hour, his leprosy departed from him, and he became clean; and Yeshua charged him, and sent him away, and Yeshua said to him, “See that you speak to no one; but go and show yourself to the priests, and make an offering on account of your cleansing, as Moses has commanded, for a testimony to them.” And he, as he went out, began to proclaim it much, and to divulge the matter; and Yeshua’s fame spread abroad still more; and much people assembled to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; so that Yeshua could not openly go into the city, but was without, in desert places, and prayed; and they came to him from every quarter; and when Yeshua saw great crowds around him, he ordered that they should go to the site shore; and a Scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you to the place wherever you go” Yeshua said to him, “For foxes there are holes, and for the birds of the sky there are nests; but for the son of man, there is not where he may recline his head.” And another of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, suffer me first to go and bury my father.” But Yeshua said to him, “Follow you me, and leave the dead, to bury their dead.” And when Yeshua entered the boat, his disciples embarked with him; and lo, a great commotion arose in the lake, so that the boat was covered by the waves; but Yeshua was asleep; and his disciples came to awake him, saying to him, “Teacher, deliver us; we are perishing!” Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the lake; and there was great tranquillity; and the men were amazed, and they said, “What a man is this, to whom the winds and the lake are obedient!” And when Yeshua arrived at the farther shore, in the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two possessed with unclean spirits, who came out from the sepulchers, very furious, so that no one could pass that way; and they cried out, and said, “What have we to do with you? Yeshua, you son of Yahweh. Have you come here before the time to torment us?” And at a distance from them there was a herd of many swine feeding; and the unclean spirits entreated of Yeshua, and said, “If you cast us out, suffer us to go into the herd of swine.” And Yeshua said to them, “Go.” And immediately they came out, and entered into the swine; and that whole herd ran straight over the cliff and plunged into the lake, and perished in the water; and the herdsmen fled, and entered the city, and related all that had occurred, and concerning them that were possessed with unclean spirits; and all the city came out to meet Yeshua; and when they saw him, they besought him to depart from their coasts; and he entered the boat, and passed over; and Yeshua again entered into Capernaum.

And it occurred, on one of the days when Yeshua was teaching; and when they heard that he was in the house, many were assembled, so that the house could not contain them, not even before the door. Pharisees and doctors of the law were sitting by, who had come from all the villages of Galilee, and of Judah, and Jerusalem; and the power of Yahweh was present to heal them; and there came to him, a paralytic borne between four persons; and when they could not thus introduce him, because of the crowd of the people, they ascended to the roof, and removed the covering of the place where Yeshua was; and let down the quilt on which the paralytic lay, from the covering, into the midst, before Yeshua; and when Yeshua saw their believing, he said to the paralytic, “Man, take courage; your sins are forgiven you.” And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason in their minds, and to say, “This man blasphemes. Who is this that speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins, except Yahweh only?” But Yeshua knew that they thus reasoned in themselves; and he said to them, “What think you; why do you think evil things, why reason you this in your heart? For, which is the easier, to say, your sins are forgiven you; or to say, arise, and walk? But that you may know that the son of man has authority in Israel to forgive sins.” Yeshua said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your quilt, and go to your home.” And instantly, he rose up before their eyes, and took up his quilt, and departed in presence of them all, and went home, glorifying Yahweh; and when the crowd saw it, astonishment seized everyone; and they praised Yahweh, who had given authority like this to men; and they were struck with awe, and said, “We have seen wonders today, we never saw the like.” And Yeshua went again to the lake; and all the crowd came to him, and he taught them; and as he passed along, he saw a man sitting among the tax collectors at the customhouse, whose name was Matthew, the son of Alpheus, and Yeshua said to him, “Come after me, follow me.” And he left everything, and arose, and went after Yeshua; and it was so, Matthew made a great entertainment for him at his house; and there was a numerous company of tax collectors and sinners that reclined with Yeshua and with his disciples; for they were many, and they followed him; and when the Scribes and Pharisees saw that he ate with tax collectors and with sinners, they murmured, and said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher and you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And as Yeshua heard it, he said to them, “A physician is not sought after for the healthy, but those laboring under disease. Go and learn what that is; for Yahweh desires goodness, not sacrifice! For I did not come to call the righteous, but the sinful, to repentance.” And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasters; and they came, and saying to Yeshua, “Why are the disciples of John and the Pharisees fast much, and your disciples fast not?” And the Scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often, and pray, and also those of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?” Yeshua said to them, “Can the guests of the nuptial chamber fast so long as the bridegroom is with them? No. But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast, in those days.” And Yeshua spoke a parable to them, “No one inserts a piece of new cloth on an old garment; lest that which fills up, tear from that garment, and the rent become greater; and no one puts new wine into old sacks; otherwise, the new wine will burst the sacks, and the wine will run out, and the sacks be ruin; but they put new wine into new sacks, and both are preserved; and no one drinks old wine, and immediately calls for new; for he saids, the old is the delicious.” And while he was thus discoursing with them, a ruler came, drew near and did homage to Yeshua, and said, “My daughter is already dead, but come lay your hand upon her, and she will live.” And Yeshua rose up, and his disciples; and they followed him; and behold, a woman whose blood had flowed fourteen years, came up behind him, and touched the extremity of his robe; for she had said in her mind, “If I but touch his garment, I shall be healed.” And Yeshua turned himself, looked at her, and said to her, “Take courage; your believing has given you life.” And the woman was healed from that very hour; and Yeshua came to the house of the ruler; and he saw there pipers, and crowds making out cry; and he said to them, “That is enough; for the little girl is not dead, but sleeps.” And they scoffed at him; but when he had put the people out, he entered in, and took her by the hand, and the little girl rose up; and the fame of this thing spread in all that land.

And when Yeshua had passed from there, two blind men followed after him, and said, “Have mercy on us, you son of David!” And when he had entered a house, those blind men approached him, and Yeshua said to them, “Believe you that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Yeshua.” Then Yeshua touched their eyes, and said, “As you have believed, so shall it be to you.” And forthwith their eyes were opened; and Yeshua charged them, and said, “See, that no man know of it.” But they went out and spread the fame of it in all that land; and as Yeshua went out, they brought to him a dumb man in whom was an unclean spirit; and as soon as he was restored, the dumb man spoke, and the people were amazed, and said, “Never was it so seen in Israel!” But the Pharisees said, “It is by the Prince of unclean spirits, he casts out unclean spirits; and on a Sabbath it occurred, as Yeshua walked among the tilled grounds, that his disciples plucked ears, and rubbed them in their hands and ate; and some of the Pharisees said to the disciples, “Why do you that, which it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” And the Pharisees said to Yeshua, “See, how on the Sabbath, they do that which is not lawful?” Yeshua replied, saying to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him? How he entered into the House of Yahweh, when Abiathar was high priest, and took and ate the bread of Yahweh’s table, and gave it to those that were with him, which it was not lawful, except for the priests only, to eat? The Sabbath was made on man’s account, and not man for the sake of the Sabbath; and on another Sabbath, Yeshua entered into a synagogue and taught; and there was a man there whose right hand was withered; and the Scribes and Pharisees watch him, that if he should heal on the Sabbath, they might be able to accuse him; and as Yeshua knew their thoughts, he said to the man with a withered hand, “Rise and come into the midst of the congregation.” And when he came and stood there, Yeshua said to them, “I ask you, what is it lawful to do on the Sabbath? That which is good? Or, that which is evil? To save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent; and he looked on them with indignation, being grieved with the hardness of their heart; and he said to the man, “Stretch forth your hand.” And he stretched out his hand, and it was restored like the other; and they were filled with envy; and they conferred one with another, what they should do to Yeshua; and the Pharisees went out that very hour, with the domestics of Herod, and held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him. So Yeshua went to the lake with his disciples; and many people joined him from Galilee, and from Judah, and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan, and from Tyre, and from Sidon; great crowds, when they heard all that Yeshua did, came to him; and Yeshua told his disciples to bring him a boat on account of the crowds, lest they should crowd upon him, for he was healing so many that others rushed toward him, so as to touch him; and they who were afflicted with unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down and cried out, and said, “You are the son of Yahweh.” And Yeshua charged them much, not to make him known.