Two more passages are adduced; one, an application of Ps.

cx (The Lord said unto my Lord) precisely as in Matt.

xxii.
44, and the other a saying assigned to our Lord, 'They who wish to see me and lay hold on my kingdom must receive me through affliction and suffering.' Of neither of these can we speak positively.

There is perhaps a slight probability that the first was suggested by our Gospel, and considering the character of the verifiable quotations in Barnabas, which often follow the sense only and not the words, the second may be 'a free reminiscence of Matt.xvi.24 compared with Acts xiv.

22,' but it is also possible that it may be a saying quoted from an apocryphal Gospel.
It should perhaps be added that Lardner and Dr.Westcott both refer to a quotation of Zech.xiii.7 which appears in the common text of the Epistle in a form closely resembling that in which the quotation is given in Matt.xxvi.31 and diverging from the LXX, but here again the Sinaitic Codex varies, and the text is too uncertain to lay stress upon, though perhaps the addition [Greek: taes poimnaes] may incline the balance to the view that the text of the Gospel has influenced the form of the quotation [Endnote 76:1].
The general result of our examination of the Epistle of Barnabas may perhaps be stated thus, that while not supplying by itself certain and conclusive proof of the use of our Gospels, still the phenomena accord better with the hypothesis of such a use.