Vita of ʾAbbā Yoḥanni of Dabra ʿAśā (long recension)

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. A discourse of the blessed and holy father ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, which ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo wrote. From the holy Gabriel, which is read on 5 Yakkātit. His prayer and blessing be with his servant. And ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo began the book of the birth of the blessed and holy father ʾAbbā Yoḥanni after his ascension into the land of the living. Reading for 5 Maggābit In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. A discourse of the blessed and holy father ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, which ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo wrote. Which is read on 5 Maggābit. His prayer and blessing be with his servant. And after three years, ʾAbbā ʾAmoni taught his son ʾAbbā Yoḥanni all learning and instruction and discourses of the New and the Old. Reading for 5 Miyāzyā

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. A discourse of the blessed and holy father ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, which ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo wrote. From the holy Gabriel, which is read on 5 Miyāzyā. His prayer and blessing with his servant. And after many days, all the peoples and nations came, having heard his fame, of ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, how he expelled the demons. Reading for 5 Gǝnbot In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. A discourse of the blessed and holy father ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, which ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo wrote. By the will of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and as the holy Gabriel dictated, he wrote the book of his life and the story of his virtue, which is read on 5 Gǝnbot. His prayer and blessing with his servant. And after our father ʾArōn departed from ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo, he arrived at his disciples and said to the little ones and to his disciples, to the 350 builders of construction. Reading for 5 Sane

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. The life of the blessed and holy father ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, which ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo wrote. Reading for 5 Ḥamle In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. The life of the blessed and holy father ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, which ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo wrote. From the holy Gabriel, which is read on 5 Ḥamle. His prayer and blessing with his servant. And after the completion of the building of the church of Dabra ʿAśā, earlier there was, while he was bestowing grace upon them, ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, as it is not to be given to anyone. Reading for 5 Naḥāse In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. The life of the blessed and holy father ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, which ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo wrote. From the holy Gabriel, which is read on 5 Naḥāse. His prayer and blessing with his servant. For he descended, but death did not hide him, as with Henok, and ʾElyās, and ʿEzrā, and our father ʾAragāwi. And we praise the father and ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, and ʾAbbā Garimā.

Reading for 5 Maskaram In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. The life of the blessed and holy father ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, which ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo wrote. From the holy Gabriel, by the will of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which is read on 5 Maskaram. His prayer and blessing with his servant. And after ʾAbbā Yoḥanni finished his preaching in the land of the living, the priest Yāred arose from where he was in the land of the living. Reading for 5 Ṭǝqǝmt In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. The life of the blessed and holy father ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, which is read on 5 Ṭǝqǝmt. His prayer and blessing with his servant. And then all the saints gathered, marvelling concerning their dwelling in her presence, by the grace of the Son of God, and she gave all her possessions. Reading for 5 Ḫǝdār

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God, hidden, existing, exalted, whom they cannot attain, hidden, whom they cannot see, fire, whom they cannot divide, spirit, whom they cannot rule, mighty, whom they cannot overcome, supreme, whom they cannot clothe, king. We shall write from the book of the life of ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, holy and blessed, for he is a brilliant star of the land of ʿAggʷāzi, and a worker of miracles of Dabra ʿAśā, which is read on the fifth of Tāḫśāś. May his prayer and blessing be with his servant. Reading for 5 Tāḫśāś In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God, the discourse of the blessed and holy ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, who was chosen from his mother’s womb, which ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo wrote from his beginning until his end, and while the holy Gabriel, the chief of angels, was writing it. On the fifth of Tāḫśāś, his prayer and blessing with his servant. And ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo was sad, and the angel of the Lord said to ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo, “Receive him, receive him, Elijah and Enoch and all the souls of the righteous from the prophets of the Law.

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. The life of the fast of the blessed and holy ʾAbbā Yoḥanni, which ʾAbbā ʿAbeydo wrote from the holy Gabriel, in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which is read on the fifth of the month of Ṭǝrr. His prayer and blessing with his servant. And then the mother of ʾAbbā Yoḥanni gave birth, the handmaid of the Holy Spirit, by the grace of the Lord Most High, and the name of his father was ʾAzāryās, and the name of his mother was ʾArsābāʿ.