EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS (^89)
And to whom was the arm of the lord revealed?"^49
This is why they could not believe, because since Isaiah said elsewhere,
"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart
so that they might not see with their eyes
and understand with their heart and turn their mind around
so that I might heal them."^50
Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and he spoke about him.
Still, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Phar-
isees they did not admit it so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.
They loved human glory more than the glory of god.
But Yeshua cried out and said,
"Who believes in me does not believe in me
but in the one who sent me.
As light into the world I have come
so that who believes in me not reside in darkness.
And who hears my words and does not keep them
I do not judge,
for I have come not to judge the world
but to save the world.
"Who rejects me and will not receive my words
has a judge waiting.
The word I spoke will judge him on the last day.
Because I spoke not from myself but from the one
who sent me,
the father has given me his commandment,
what I should say and how I should speak.
And I know his commandment is life everlasting.
So what I say,
as the father told me, I say it."
- Isaiah 53:1. See also Romans 10:16.
- Isaiah 6:10. See also Matthew 13:15, Mark 4:12.