NEUOFFENBARUNGBJ.01_Antw.2,01 Abgarus, great is your faith. Your son could therefore get better. But since I have found more love in you than in Israel, I will do more for you than I would if you had faith alone.
BJ.01_Antw.2,02 See, I, the Lord from eternity, now a teacher of humanity and an eternal deliverer from eternal death, will give your son eternal life before my ascension. For without seeing or knowing me he has loved me with his whole heart, before my coming suffering for all people. And so, my dear Abgarus, you will lose your son in body in this world, but gain him a thousandfold in spirit in my eternal kingdom.
BJ.01_Antw.2,03 Do not think that your son will truly die when he dies. No, no! Only when he dies will he awake from this world’s sleep of death to true, eternal life in my kingdom, which is spiritual and not bodily.
BJ.01_Antw.2,04 Do not let your soul be troubled. See, and keep silence. I alone am the Lord, and there is no other besides me. I am free to do what I do, and no one can tell me to do this or refrain from doing that.
BJ.01_Antw.2,05 What I do now, and the persecution I allow myself to suffer as though I were a weak human being, I foresaw before the earth was founded and before the sun, moon and stars shone down upon it from heaven. For this I came forth from my Father, who is in me as I am in him. The Father is the highest, for he is my love and my will. The Spirit who proceeds from me and the Father, working from eternity to eternity, is the holiest. And I am all this, I who now reveal it to you.
BJ.01_Antw.2,06 Do not grieve, then, now that you know who has revealed this to you. But keep silent about it until I am lifted up on the stake by the Jews. You will hear of it as soon as it happens. Otherwise the world would fall before its time.
BJ.01_Antw.2,07 In these days a poor young man will come to your city. Take him in and do him good. You will thereby gladden my heart, for I am showing your son great grace, and because of his love I let him go before me to where I will go after I am lifted up on the stake. Amen.
BJ.01_Antw.2,08 Written at Cana in Galilee by the disciple John and sent by the king’s messenger.