May their mind, their knowledge and their understanding be illumined for the believers, and for me, N, and my wife, N.

This is the wisdom and the teachings that Yahya, the son of Zakariya, made known, revealed and communicated to the truthful and believing Nasoraeans. He said: "If you have the strength for it, be a man of tried righteousness, tried in all his works, like a king on whose head the crown is set, who wages war in the world of the wicked and liars and throws down the darkness and its helpers. If you have no strength to be a man of tried righteousness, then be a truthful Nasoraean, like the orderly farmer who works the earth and brings out the crops in it, who becomes a helper to the perfect, gives strength to the men of tried righteousness and shares in their merits.

The weapon of the men of tried righteousness is truthfulness, faith, uprightness, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, information, teaching, truth, prayer, praise, giving of reward, almsgiving, gentleness, goodness, humility, justice, honesty, likeability, prudence, correctness, purity, innocence, modesty, mercy, compassion, reflection and meditation on life, and true love.

The first thing in your truthfulness be: do not falsify your word and do not love lies and deceit.

The first thing in your faith be: believe in the King of Light, that He is there and stands in all virtues.

The first thing in your uprightness be: judge yourself.

The first thing in your knowledge be: do not be mixed.

The first thing in your understanding be: do not throw yourself into filth.

The first thing in your wisdom be: do not jest and do not laugh at the perfect.

The first thing in your instruction be: teach and explain the words of your Lord.

The first thing in your teaching be: do not cut off the commands aiming at virtues from the good teachers.

The first thing in your truth be: do not exchange your word for one that is not yours.

The first thing in your prayer and praise be: do not love sleep.

The first thing in your piety and goodness be: give alms and water to the hungry and thirsty.

The first thing in your gentleness be: do not take on arrogance, do not be angry and do not rebel.

The first thing in your humility be: the Name of your Lord must not depart from your mouth.

The first thing in your justice be: keep yourself upright and accept the words of the wise.

The first thing in your honesty be: say nothing that you do not know.

The first thing in your likeability be: be honored by everyone.

The first thing in your prudence be: know your account and then speak.

The first thing in your correctness be: do not desire and do not take anything that is not yours.

The first thing in your purity be: do not throw yourself into filth.

The first thing in your innocence be: keep yourself innocent and love nothing hateful.

The first thing in your modesty be: do not exalt yourself over one who is greater than you.

The first thing in your mercy be: be merciful toward the souls of the poor and persecuted.

The first thing in your praise be: praise the place from which you have come.

The first thing in your reflection be: the day on which you leave your body.

The first thing in your love be: take faithful love for the good brothers who walk in the love of your Lord.

The truthful is like a scale that is set straight and has no crookedness.

The upright is like the true judge in whose speech there is no lie.

The believer is like the farmer who sows and brings forth good, beautiful fruits.

The knowing one is like the skilled builder who builds and arranges the building in all beauty.

The excellent one is like the painter who paints pictures in all beauty.

The wise one is like the skilled master craftsman who understands every thing.

The excellent one who creates what is excellent is like the shining lamp that shines from left to right.

The truthful is like a high mountain that the storms cannot move from its place.

The one tried in prayer and praise is like a merchant who doubles and redoubles himself by thousands of gain.

The good one who gives alms is like the laden table set before the hungry.

The gentle one is like the sweet, tasty fruit.

The humble one is like the water that falls down and scatters over every place.

The orderly one is like the praised tree, which works, is crowned and well ordered.

The friendly one is like a mountain with lovely flowers, trees and fragrant plants.

The prudent one is like the faithful tower-guard, who is not bribed by any bribery.

The upright one is like the right food, whose taste is made right by all kinds of fruits.

The pure one is like the clear, pure spring that takes on no mixture of any kind.

The innocent one is like the polished mirror in which all faces are clearly recognized.

The compassionate one, who feels compassion, is like the sun that shines over good and evil.

The merciful one is like the pleasant wind that blows into all doors and windows.

The thoughtful one, who reflects and ponders on what lies before him, is like the knight who sits fettered in prison but reflects and ponders: when shall I be freed from my fetter?

Everyone who is filled with true love is like the good father who increases his property for his children and offspring.

Chosen and perfect ones! Be on your guard and keep far from cunning, injustice, deceit, lies, falsehood, fraud, crookedness, wickedness, perversity, error, confusion, obscuring, unbelief, corruptibility, folly, singing, filth, fornication, depravity, haughtiness, arrogance, proud looks, drunkenness, dancing, enthrallment, lust, passion by which the children of men are taken captive, envy, jealousy, narrowness, hatred, insolence, anger, bitterness, rebellion, fornication, robbery with which the wicked rob, oppressions with which they oppress, rob and plunder, filth, defilement of bodies, stubbornness and contempt with which the wicked show themselves stubborn and contemptuous toward the perfect.

Take hold of the commands of your Lord.

The cunning one is like a pit that is covered in cunning.

The unjust one is like a pomegranate that shows a splendid face outside but inside is full of mold.

The forger is like the bird, the fowl, that brings its companions into the net, throws all its friends into death.

The liar is like the enemy who poses as a friend, who knows every right and who lowers his voice.

The deceiver is like the plundering sea, which plunders the ships that are on it.

The wicked one is like the bitter tree that brings forth fruits with deadly poison, on which there are no good fruits.

The sinner is like a well that lets stinking water gush forth, that lets poison and bitterness gush forth.

The confused one is like the mud brick thrown into water. The more you search for it, the stronger the turbidity becomes.

The hard one is like the pebble that does not become soft through any moisture.

The fool is like a piece of rock. Whether it falls on you or under you, it wrongs you.

The arrogant one is like the splendid plane tree, which boasts with its foliage but brings and gives its owner no fruit.

The rebel is like the heated oven, which has neither ..... nor ......

The bitter one is like the aloe that falls into honey and spoils it.

The furious one is like the blazing fire that the wind carries away.

The wise one who is disorderly is like a house without a roof.

The wise one who is without order is like a noblewoman without a garment.

The wise one who is immodest is like a mirror that is not polished.

The wise one who is disorderly is like a horse without a saddle.

The wise one who is unfriendly is like food without taste.

The wise one who cannot keep silent is like an army without a king.

The wise one who is imperfect is like a table that is not adorned.

The wise one whose words are incorrect is like a house without a door.

The wise one who is not upright is like a river without a mouth.

The wise one who has no fear is like a piece of land that is not tended.

The wise one who is not prudent is like a ship without a sailor.

When the wise one is moderate, his voice is kept low, his words cheerful, his walk calm, and his greeting comes first.

When the fool is excessive, his voice is overloud, his words agitated, when he walks he walks in rebellion, and in greeting he greets with the fingertips.

When the wise one is moderate, his speech is right, and he is a helper in all beautiful things.

When the fool is excessive, his speech is false, and he is a helper in all evil things.

When the wise one is perfect, his speech is straight in all the agreements he makes, and his seal is present. With the wise one the dwelling is prepared for all the perfect and the table is laid.

When the fool is excessive, he reckons with his mouth a reckoning of wrongdoing and with his hands hands out obols and half-drachmas.

When you have a lawsuit with the wise one, he of himself lets justice be done and lets your works go on in rest and peace.

When you have a lawsuit with the fool, his speech is piercing, his voice harsh, and he brings his neck to the sword.

The wise one does not come to rejoicing, because he thinks of what is his own and what is another's. The fool has the noose around his neck and dances in it.

When you speak with a good wise one, he sows good, virtuous works in you. When you turn to a fool, you become harder than stone.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like a stone that does not become soft through oil.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like a mirror for the blind.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like rain on bad soil.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like white garments for the glass-blower.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like shoes for the fuller.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like balsam oil for the fisherman.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like a splendid garment for the tanner.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like pearls for a sow.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like a maiden for the eunuch.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like live coals in water.

The words of the wise one to the fool are like messengers of joy for the stone-deaf.

If you leave the fool hungry, he insults you with all manner of foolishness. If you feed the fool, take and receive from him unjust grumbling.

The wise one who says: I need not keep away from fools, is the first among all fools and wholly unwise. The fool who keeps silent is counted among the wise.

Whoever is not your friend, do not initiate him into your doings. Whoever's heart is not gentle and not humble, do not regard him as noble.

Whoever does no wrong to others need not go to court.

Whoever preaches and does not act himself is like the water-skin and the bucket that fills and gives water to drink to another.

Whoever preaches and does not act himself is like a man of ugly form who paints pictures, while he cannot make himself beautiful.

Whoever preaches and does not act himself is like the fuller who bleached the king's garment and then it is taken from him.

Whoever preaches and does not act himself is like the deaf man who does not hear all songs and melodies.

Whoever preaches and does not act himself is like the builder who raises no building for himself.

Whoever preaches and does not act himself is like the sleeper who sleeps and in a dream kills his enemy. When he wakes from sleep, he has done nothing.

Whoever preaches and does not act himself is like the gardener who does not weave a wreath for himself.

Whoever preaches and does not act himself is like the judge who pronounces justice not for himself but only for others.

Woe to those who preach and do not act themselves, who speak one way and act another. Outwardly they show the badges of faith, and inwardly they are wholly corrupt. For they do not know what they do.

Whoever does not do the will of his Lord, to him death is nearer than life.

The perfect are those who preached, heard and acted, who do not give the lie to what their mouth speaks.

This is the discourse on the wise, which Yahya, the son of Zakariya, taught and revealed in Jerusalem, the city of the Jews. Jawar-Ziwa and all his helpers made him victorious.

Truth is victorious over all works.