Volume 11 · Chapter 5

THE LORD CONDEMNS THE CUNNINGNESS OF THE PHARISEES Somewhat embarrassed the Pharisee said: “Master, I see that it will be difficult to talk with You, but I still ask You to fulfill my request and, since You now admitted that You know that Galilean, to tell us by what means He performs His miracles or if they are just plain deceit and arts from the Essenes. We also are friends of the truth and search it with great zeal. That is why we were sent out because the High Council surely knows that they cannot so easily make us believe a false miracle and take it for a real miracle and be deceived as easily as the dumb people. So be so kind to answer our questions and rest assured that we will fully believe You.”

[GGJ.11_005,02] I answered: “Why asking Me while you do not know Me? Are there not many eyewitnesses in Israel who can testify to you – and have also already done that – that the deeds of that Galilean are real and are not done with the help of Satan? You know these witnesses very well and you still do not believe them. Then why should you believe Me?”

[GGJ.11_005,03] The Pharisee said: “We heard Your wise words, Master, and have noticed that You cannot be that blind as there are many of those we know and who also told us about the deeds of that Jesus from Nazareth. We know them as being very credulous and we can therefore not yet accept a testimony from them. But it is quite different with a man like You who proves by His words that He saw many things and must have acquired a great knowledge of the world. And now we also repeat our request: be so kind to tell us unconcealed Your opinion about that Galilean.

[GGJ.11_005,04] We traveled via Jericho only to examine His miracles on the spot, for they say that He made a blind man seeing and spent a long time there. But we must confess that all that many praising of the beggars among the people did not convince us at all to believe that supernatural things happened, for there are very wise and skilful doctors, especially among the Greeks, who were also often able to heal sick people whom no one else could ever hope to heal. Then why could it also not have happened there like with those sicknesses that seem really very difficult but were nevertheless healed by the Greek doctors?

[GGJ.11_005,05] They told us that the Galilean is most likely to be found in the Jordan Valley because it would be His intention to move more to that region in the winter. At least that is what we heard through the mediation of a resident of Lazarus’ house in Bethany. That is why we traveled from Jericho to this place to search in this region. Now You know exactly what our intention is, dear Master, and You certainly will not be so reserved anymore to answer our questions.”

[GGJ.11_005,06] I said: “O not at all, and be sure that you will be completely served according to the good order. But it really strikes Me that you only went out to examine His miracles and not His Word. I know that this Galilean repeatedly said that miracles are not very useful because there is no or little proof for those who were not present – as this is now also very clearly shown by you – and that the truth and the practice of His Word are only important to Him, as well as His teaching that solely possesses the power to convince by the spiritual power that it contains. Then why do you not examine that and why are you not concerned about that? Give Me answer to this.”

[GGJ.11_005,07] On this the Pharisee said with a pitiful smile: “We have Moses and the prophets, the Kabala1 and the Torah2. What other teachings do we need since those books contain everything and wherein all the wisdom of God was placed? The teaching of the Galilean, which was told to us many times, is often so confused, unclear and insane that experienced scribes like us can really not engage in it because it is directly opposed to the teaching of Moses.

[GGJ.11_005,08] So the question is at most whether His miracles are real, for if we can be convinced of that, it will be a pleasure to then recognize those miracles, especially because, in service of the temple, great good deeds for the Jewish people can result from that.”

[GGJ.11_005,09] While I was sharply looking at the speaker, I said: “You fools, do you perhaps think that it would not be easy for that Galilean to destroy the temple and all its servants? How can you think that your cunningness is capable to make Him serve you? But now your mask really fell off, and for the sake of those who are present here I wanted the intentions of the temple to be clearly revealed. For you do not care about the true life, about the teaching to become blissful – for you think that it is the greatest foolishness to believe in a blissfulness after death – but solely for much power, prestige and, if it works, to learn magic with the intention to keep the people in fear and fright to let them serve you – if not out of love and respect, then only out of fear. In order to attain that goal, that Galilean seems to be the right man for you. You know that the people are attached to Him. Whether His miracles are real or not is the same to you, as long as they can serve your selfish purposes, then it is all right. For in any case, it seems a good idea to you to fill your pockets even faster than before. And it also does not seem difficult for you to copy the arts of that Jesus from Nazareth so that you will eliminate Him when He later will become troublesome to you. 1 Kabala: Interpretation of the Torah. 2 Torah: Hebrew word, meaning ‘teaching’ or ‘law’.

[GGJ.11_005,10] So these are the thoughts of the High Council which you have to execute on their command, and that is why you went out to search that Galilean and win Him for your purposes.

[GGJ.11_005,11] But truly, I say to you: you will sooner succeed to put the sun out of its orbit than to reach your wicked purposes, for in that Galilean lives a higher command to which He obeys, and this command that prevails in Him comes from that God whom you worship with the lips in Jerusalem but never more with the heart. So if you possess even a bit of discernment you will realize that He only can be concerned about the Spirit that drives Him to do justice – no matter from where His greatness, power and might may come – but not about your selfish plans that only lusts for admiration and false prophesying.

[GGJ.11_005,12] Your limitless blindness that makes you hard and unfit to enter the Kingdom of God will later bring you to ruin. The mercy of God goes that far to look upon all your horrible sins with indulgence in the hope that you finally will still convert and repent, for even if a sinner who is already in the midst of Hell and would call his God and Lord for help will receive redemption and help. But you will cause the judgment for yourselves, and truly, it has already come very close. But then do not say: ‘Lord, You are a hard God and have inflicted these wounds to us because of our many sins. You turned away Your holy face from us and now there is wailing and gnashing of teeth among us’, but attribute that evil time to yourself and do not call it a judgment from God but only a just result of your hardness and spiritual laziness which makes you blind with seeing eyes and deaf with hearing ears.”