In the morning, Jesus went up to the Temple with many people. Whereupon, the high priest drew near and told Jesus, "Tell me, have you forgotten all that you confessed, that you are not God, nor son of God, nor even the Messiah?" Jesus answered, "No, surely, I have not forgotten, for this is my confession which I shall bear before the judgment seat of God on the Day of Judgment. All that is written in the Book of Moses is most true, inasmuch as God our creator is God alone, and I am God's servant and desire to serve God's Messenger whom you call Messiah."

The high priest said, "Then why did you come to the Temple with multitude of people? Seek you, perhaps, to make yourself king of Israel? Beware lest some danger befall you!" Jesus answered, "If I sought my own glory and desired my portion in this world, I had not fled when the people of Nain would fain have made me king. Believe me, truly, that I do not seek anything in this world. Assuredly, I do not lie, for if I had said the lie I had been adored by you and by the scribes and Pharisees with all Israel; but because I tell you the truth you hate me and seek to kill me."

Said the high priest, "Now we know that you have the devil at your back; for you are a Samaritan, and have no respect to the priest of God."

Jesus answered, "As God lives, I have not the devil at my back, but I seek to cast out the devil. Therefore, the devil stirs up the world against me, because I am not of this world, but I seek that God may be glorified, who has sent me into the world. Hearken therefore to me, and I will tell you who has the devil at his back."

Jesus continued, "If I (as I know) have sinned, wherefore do you not rebuke me as a brother, instead of hating me as an enemy? Truly, the members of a body succour one another when they are united with the head, and they that are cut off from the head give it no succour. He, who fears and loves God his Creator, has the feeling of mercy over whom God - his head - has mercy. If you were of that body wherein, I am incorporate, seeing that God does not want the death of the sinner, but waits for each one to repent, you would help me to work according to my head.

If I work iniquity, reprove me, and God will love you, because you are doing His will, but if none can reprove me of sin, it is a sign that you are not sons of Abraham as you call yourselves, nor are you incorporate with that head wherein Abraham was incorporate. As God lives, so greatly Abraham loved God that he not only breaks in pieces the false idols and forsook his father, but he wanted to slay his son in obedience to God."

The high priest answered, "This I ask you, and I do not want to slay you, so tell us, ‘Who was this son of Abraham?" Jesus answered, "The zeal of your honour, O God, inflames me, and I cannot hold my peace. Truly, I say that the son of Abraham was Ishmael, and from his descended will be the promised Messiah who in him all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed."

Then hearing this, high priest cried out, "Let us stone this impious fellow, for he is an Ishmaelite, and has spoken blasphemy against Moses and against the Law of God."

Whereupon, all scribes, Pharisee, and the elders took up stones to stone Jesus. However, he vanished from their eyes and went out of the Temple. Then, through the great desire that they had to slay Jesus, blinded with fury and hatred, they struck one another in such wise that about one thousand men died; and they polluted the holy Temple.

The disciples and believers, who saw Jesus go out of the Temple (for from them he was not hidden), followed him to the house of Simon. Nicodemus came there and counselled Jesus to go out of Jerusalem beyond the brook Cedron, saying, "Lord, I have a garden with a house beyond the brook Cedron. I pray you go there with some of your disciples, to tarry until this hatred of our priests passes. I will minister to you what is necessary." Jesus accepted and went there with his twelve apostles.