batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l26429-l26545
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l26429-l26545
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label: PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. /
PREFACE; lines 26429-26545
start: '26429'
end: '26545'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage gives legal admonition about truthful witness and fear of God,
then depicts God assembling the Apostles, recalling divine favors to Jesus son
of Mary, including instruction, miraculous signs, and protection. The Apostles
ask for a furnished table from heaven; Jesus prays for it as a sign, festival,
and nourishment, and God promises its descent with a warning against later disbelief.
God then questions Jesus about whether he told people to take him and his mother
as gods beside God; Jesus denies this and affirms that he taught worship of God
alone. The passage concludes with reward for the truthful, gardens with rivers,
and God's sovereignty over heaven and earth.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The opening admonition says that truthful witness and fear of God should guide
oaths and testimony.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: God is described as assembling the Apostles and asking what reply was made
to them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The Apostles answer that they have no knowledge and that God is the knower
of secrets.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: God addresses Jesus son of Mary and recalls favor upon Jesus and Mary.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Jesus is said to have been strengthened with the Holy Spirit and to have spoken
to people in the cradle and as an adult.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: God says he taught Jesus Scripture, Wisdom, the Law, and the Evangel.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Jesus is said to create a clay figure of a bird by God's leave, breathe into
it, and it becomes a bird by God's leave.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Jesus is said to heal the blind and the leper and bring forth the dead by
God's leave.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: Some unbelieving children of Israel call Jesus' clear tokens plain sorcery.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:10
text: God reveals to the Apostles to believe in God and in his Sent One; they answer
that they believe and ask witness that they are Muslims.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:11
text: The Apostles ask Jesus whether his Lord is able to send down a furnished table
from heaven.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:12
text: Jesus tells the Apostles to fear God if they are believers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:13
text: The Apostles say they desire to eat from the table, have their hearts assured,
know that Jesus has spoken truth, and be witnesses.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:14
text: Jesus prays that God send down a table from heaven, so it may be a recurring
festival, a sign, and nourishment.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:15
text: God says he will cause the table to descend but will uniquely chastise anyone
among them who disbelieves afterward.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:16
text: God asks Jesus whether he told mankind to take Jesus and his mother as two
gods beside God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:17
text: Jesus denies saying what is not true and says God knows what is in him, while
he does not know what is in God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:18
text: Jesus says he only told them to worship God, his Lord and their Lord, and
that God watched them after taking Jesus to himself.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:19
text: Jesus says that if God punishes them they are God's servants, and if God forgives
them, God is mighty and wise.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:20
text: God declares that the truth of the truthful will benefit them, and that they
will have gardens beneath which rivers flow forever.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:21
text: The passage ends by affirming that sovereignty over the heavens, earth, and
all they contain belongs to God.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: God
description: The speaker and judge who assembles the Apostles, addresses Jesus,
grants signs by leave, promises the table's descent, warns of chastisement, rewards
the truthful, and holds sovereignty.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Jesus, Son of Mary
description: A recipient of divine favor, strengthened by the Holy Spirit, taught
scripture and wisdom, performer of signs by God's leave, petitioner for the heavenly
table, and witness who denies teaching worship of himself or his mother.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:6
- role:7
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Mary
description: The mother of Jesus, named in God's address and in the question about
whether she and Jesus were taken as gods beside God.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: The Apostles
description: A group assembled by God, asked about the response to them, revealed
to by God to believe, and requesting a table from heaven through Jesus.
role_refs:
- role:10
- role:11
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Holy Spirit
description: The spirit by which God says he strengthened Jesus.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Children of Israel
description: A group from whom God says he withheld harm from Jesus when Jesus came
to them with clear tokens; some among them disbelieved and called the tokens sorcery.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: The truthful
description: Those whose truth benefits them on the day described and who receive
gardens with rivers.
role_refs:
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Mankind
description: The audience in God's question to Jesus about whether Jesus told them
to take Jesus and Mary as gods beside God.
role_refs:
- role:16
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: divine speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God speaks commands, questions, promises, warnings, and final judgment declarations.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:13
- id: role:2
label: judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: God assembles the Apostles, questions Jesus, threatens chastisement after
disbelief, and rewards the truthful.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:13
- id: role:3
label: giver of signs
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jesus' miracles occur by God's leave, and the table is promised as a sign
from God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:4
label: sovereign
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage states that sovereignty of the heavens and earth belongs to God
and that he has power over all things.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: role:5
label: favored prophet or sent one
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: God recalls favor to Jesus, divine instruction, and the Apostles' belief
in God and his Sent One.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: miracle worker by divine leave
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Jesus makes a bird from clay, heals, and brings forth the dead by God's leave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: petitioner
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Jesus prays for God to send down a table from heaven.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:8
label: witness and defender of monotheistic teaching
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Jesus denies telling mankind to take himself and Mary as gods and says he
taught worship of God alone.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: role:9
label: mother of Jesus
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Mary is named as Jesus' mother and as one included in the question about
alleged worship beside God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:10
- id: role:10
label: assembled messengers or disciples
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: God assembles the Apostles and questions them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:11
label: believers
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Apostles say they believe and ask witness that they are Muslims.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:12
label: petitioners for heavenly food
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Apostles ask whether a furnished table can be sent down from heaven and
explain their desire to eat from it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:13
label: strengthening agent
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: God says he strengthened Jesus with the Holy Spirit.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:14
label: opposition audience
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: God says he withheld the children of Israel from Jesus, and some unbelievers
among them called his tokens sorcery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:15
label: rewarded truthful
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The truthful are said to benefit from their truth and receive gardens beneath
which rivers flow.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:16
label: questioned audience of teaching
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: God asks Jesus whether he said to mankind to take Jesus and Mary as gods
beside God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: furnished table from heaven
literal_form: A furnished table sent down out of heaven, requested as food, assurance,
sign, and recurring festival.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: sym:2
label: clay bird becoming living bird
literal_form: A figure of a bird made from clay, breathed into by Jesus, and becoming
a bird by God's leave.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: Scripture, Wisdom, Law, and Evangel
literal_form: Teachings or revealed knowledge said to have been taught to Jesus
by God.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: gardens beneath which rivers flow
literal_form: Gardens with rivers flowing beneath them, inhabited forever by the
truthful.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:5
label: cradle speech
literal_form: Jesus speaking to men while in the cradle and later as an adult.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: oath and witness
literal_form: Oaths and true witness are invoked as part of the opening legal admonition.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Admonition about witness and oaths
summary: The passage instructs hearers to bear true witness, fear God, and heed
divine guidance concerning oaths.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Assembly of the Apostles
summary: God assembles the Apostles and asks about the response made to them; they
answer that God alone knows secrets.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Recollection of favors to Jesus
summary: God addresses Jesus son of Mary, recalls favor on Jesus and Mary, and recounts
Jesus' strengthening, teaching, signs, and opposition from unbelievers.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Apostles' belief
summary: God reveals to the Apostles to believe in him and his Sent One, and they
declare belief and Muslim submission.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Request for the heavenly table
summary: The Apostles ask Jesus about a furnished table from heaven; Jesus warns
them to fear God, and they explain that the table would provide food, assurance,
confirmation, and witness.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:6
label: Prayer and divine response concerning the table
summary: Jesus prays that God send down the table as a festival, sign, and nourishment;
God promises its descent and warns that later disbelief will bring exceptional
chastisement.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:7
label: Questioning of Jesus about worship
summary: God asks Jesus whether he told mankind to take Jesus and Mary as gods beside
God; Jesus denies this and says he taught only worship of God.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: scene:8
label: Reward of the truthful and divine sovereignty
summary: God declares the benefit and reward of the truthful in gardens with flowing
rivers and affirms his sovereignty over heaven and earth.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine judgment assembly
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: God assembles Apostles, questions Jesus, declares punishment or forgiveness,
and announces reward for the truthful.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents judgment discourse directly; no broader eschatological
system beyond this passage is inferred.
- id: motif:2
label: heavenly banquet or food as sign
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Apostles ask for a furnished table from heaven; Jesus prays for it as
a festival, sign, and nourishment, and God promises it with a warning.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy reference exactly matches a heavenly table or sacred
meal; left without taxonomy assignment.
- id: motif:3
label: miraculous creation and healing by divine leave
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Jesus makes a clay bird live, heals the blind and leper, and brings forth
the dead, all by God's leave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes divine leave; the motif should not be separated
from that qualification.
- id: motif:4
label: revealed wisdom and sacred instruction
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: God says he taught Jesus Scripture, Wisdom, the Law, and the Evangel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a concise statement of instruction rather than a developed wisdom
narrative.
- id: motif:5
label: raising of the dead
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: Jesus is said to bring forth the dead by God's leave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage mentions a miracle of bringing forth the dead, not a detailed
general resurrection narrative.
- id: motif:6
label: afterlife reward in gardens with rivers
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The truthful receive eternal gardens beneath which rivers flow, and God is
pleased with them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The available taxonomy does not include a separate paradise-garden category;
linked to divine judgment because the reward is declared in judgment context.
- id: motif:7
label: vindication of monotheistic teaching
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Jesus denies instructing people to take himself and Mary as gods beside God
and states that he taught worship of God alone.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy reference precisely matches this polemical or doctrinal
motif.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 26429-26431
quote_or_summary: '"bear a true witness" and "fear God and hearken" in relation
to oaths and testimony.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 26433-26435
quote_or_summary: God assembles the Apostles and asks, "What reply was made to you?"
They answer that God is "the Knower of Secrets."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 26437-26440
quote_or_summary: God addresses Jesus son of Mary, recalls favor on Jesus and Mary,
and says Jesus was strengthened with the Holy Spirit and spoke in the cradle and
when grown.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 26442-26449
quote_or_summary: God says he taught Jesus Scripture, Wisdom, Law, and Evangel;
Jesus made a clay bird live, healed the blind and leper, brought forth the dead
by God's leave, and was opposed by unbelievers who called the signs sorcery.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 26451-26453
quote_or_summary: God reveals to the Apostles, "Believe on me and on my Sent One,"
and they answer, "We believe."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 26455-26457
quote_or_summary: The Apostles ask Jesus whether his Lord can "send down a furnished
TABLE to us out of Heaven," and Jesus tells them to fear God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 26459-26460
quote_or_summary: The Apostles say they want to eat from the table, have their hearts
assured, know Jesus has spoken truth, and be witnesses.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: lines 26462-26465
quote_or_summary: Jesus prays, "send down a table to us out of Heaven," as a recurring
festival, sign, and nourishment.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 26467-26469
quote_or_summary: God says he will cause the table to descend, but whoever disbelieves
afterward will receive an exceptional chastisement.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: quote
locator: lines 26471-26476
quote_or_summary: God asks Jesus whether he told mankind to take Jesus and Mary
"as two Gods, beside God"; Jesus denies saying what is not true.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 26478-26481
quote_or_summary: 'Jesus says he spoke only what God commanded: worship God, my
Lord and your Lord; he was witness while among them, and God watched them after
taking him to himself.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: quote
locator: lines 26483-26484
quote_or_summary: Jesus says, "If Thou punish them, they are Thy servants, and if
Thou forgive them" God is mighty and wise.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:13
type: quote
locator: lines 26486-26488
quote_or_summary: God says the truthful will benefit from their truth and have "Gardens"
beneath which "rivers flow" forever.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:14
type: quote
locator: lines 26490-26491
quote_or_summary: '"Unto God belongeth the sovereignty of the Heavens and of the
Earth" and God has power over all things.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif labels are cautious
and limited to explicit elements; taxonomy fit is exact for divine judgment and
wisdom, broader for resurrection and garden reward.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-29'
notes: |-
Footnotes following the passage were not used for motif extraction except where they fall in the supplied line range; they are mostly translator notes on earlier verses and do not materially affect the extracted scene sequence.
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