[599] When this was said, the Blessed One said this to the bhikkhu Kokālika: "Do not speak thus, Kokālika! Do not speak thus, Kokālika! Kokālika, make your mind (citta) confident in Sāriputta and Moggallāna; Sāriputta and Moggallāna are of amiable virtue (pesalā)."
A second time the bhikkhu Kokālika said this to the Blessed One: "Venerable sir, even though [the Blessed One] is worthy of my faith and worthy of my trust, still Sāriputta and Moggallāna have evil wishes; they have come under the sway of evil wishes."
A second time the Blessed One said this to the bhikkhu Kokālika: "Do not speak thus, Kokālika! Do not speak thus, Kokālika! Kokālika, make your mind confident in Sāriputta and Moggallāna; Sāriputta and Moggallāna are of amiable virtue."
A third time the bhikkhu Kokālika said this to the Blessed One: "… they have come under the sway of evil wishes."
A third time the Blessed One said this to the bhikkhu Kokālika: "… Sāriputta and Moggallāna are of amiable virtue."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.