جان دریغم نیست از عیسی و لیک ** واقفم بر علم دینش نیک نیک‌‌

I do not grudge Jesus my life, but full well am I versed in the knowledge of his religion.

حیف می‌‌آمد مرا کان دین پاک ** در میان جاهلان گردد هلاک‌‌

Grief was coming over me (it seemed to me a pity) that that holy religion should perish amongst those who are ignorant (of it).

شکر ایزد را و عیسی را که ما ** گشته‌‌ایم آن کیش حق را رهنما

Thanks be to God and to Jesus that I have become a guide to the true faith.

از جهود و از جهودی رسته‌‌ام ** تا به زناری میان را بسته‌‌ام‌‌

I have escaped from Jews and Judaism so (entirely) that I have bound my waist with a (Christian) girdle.

دور دور عیسی است ای مردمان ** بشنوید اسرار کیش او به جان‌‌ 360

The (present) epoch is the epoch of Jesus. O men, hearken with your souls unto the mysteries of his religion!’”

کرد با وی شاه آن کاری که گفت ** خلق حیران مانده ز ان مکر نهفت‌‌

The king did to him that deed (mutilation) which he had proposed: the people remained in amazement at that hidden (mysterious) plot.

راند او را جانب نصرانیان ** کرد در دعوت شروع او بعد از آن‌‌

He (the king) drove him away to the Christians. After that, he (the vizier) began to proselytise.

قبول کردن نصارا مکر وزیر را

How the Christians let themselves be duped by the vizier.

صد هزاران مرد ترسا سوی او ** اندک اندک جمع شد در کوی او

Myriads of Christian men gathered round him, little by little, in his abode,

او بیان می‌‌کرد با ایشان به راز ** سر انگلیون و زنار و نماز

(While) he secretly expounded to them the mysteries of Gospel and girdle and prayer.

او به ظاهر واعظ احکام بود ** لیک در باطن صفیر و دام بود 365

Outwardly he was a preacher of (religious) ordinances, but inwardly he was (as) the whistle and snare (of the fowler).