EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 75
THE LAMB OF GOD
The next day Yohanan saw Yeshua coming toward him and said,
"Look, the lamb of god who takes away the wrong of the world.
He is the one of whom I have said,
'A man is coming after me who was before me,'
because before me he was.
And I did not know hirn,
but so that he might be known in Israel
is why I came baptizing in water."SPIRIT DESCENDING LIKE A DOVE
And Yohanan testified, saying,
"I saw the spirit descending like a dove from the sky
and it rested on him and I did not know him,
but the one who sent me to baptize in water said,
'The one on whom you see the spirit descend and rest,
he is the one baptizing in holy spirit.'
And I have seen and I have testified that he is the son of god."WE HAVE FOUND THE MESSIAH
The next day Yohanan again was standing with two of his students. When he
saw Yeshua walking by, he said, "Look, the lamb of god."
His two students heard him speaking and they followed Yeshua.
And Yeshua turned and saw them following him and said,
"What are you looking for?"
"Rabbi," which translated means teacher,^13 "where are you staying?"
He told them,
"Come and see."
So they came and saw where he was staying, and stayed with him that day.
It was about four in the afternoon.- This clause and others like it are scribal asides that appear to be a later interpolation whose
purpose is to persuade the reader that "rabbi" meant a teacher or scholar rather than a Jewish
rabbi, whose profession was to lead a congregation and interpret Jewish law. Rabbi is from He-
brew for "my master, great one, teacher."