MİSYONERSAVAR YAZILAR

Estimated Range of Dating: 70-120 A.D.

Information on Egerton Gospel:

The Egerton Gospel is also known as Papyrus Egerton 2. It is known from an ancient manuscript that is rivaled only by the John Rylands fragment p52 in its antiquity. Ron Cameron states in his introduction in The Other Gospels, "On paleographical grounds the papyrus has been assigned a date in the first half of the second century A.D. This makes it one of the two earliest preserved papyrus witnesses to the gospel tradition."

The Egerton Gospel does have very close parallels to John, but because Egerton's versions of these parallels show less development than John's, Egerton may preserve earlier forms of the tradition. Egerton Gospel:

. . to the lawyers: ". . . everyone who acts contrary to the law, but not me . . . what he does, as he does it." And having turned to the rulers of the people he spoke the following saying, "Search the scriptures in which you think that you have life; these are the ones which bear witness to me. Do not think that I came to accuse you to my father. There is one that accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope." And when they said, "We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for you, we do not know where you come from." Jesus answered and said to them, "Now accusation is raised against your unbelief with respect to those to whom he bore witness. Because if you had believed Moses, you would believe me since it is about me that he wrote to your fathers."

. . . to gather stones together [to stone] him. And the rulers laid their hands on him to [deliver] him to the crowd. But they were not able to arrest him since the hour of his being handed over had not yet come. But the Lord himself escaped from their hands and turned away from them. And behold, a leper coming to him, says: "Teacher Jesus, while traveling with lepers and eating together with them in the inn, I myself also became a leper. If therefore you will, I will be clean." And the Lord said to him: "I will, be clean." And immediately the leprosy left him. And Jesus said to him: "Go show yourself to the priests and offer concerning the purification as Moses commanded and sin no more [...]"