Explanations of Scripture

Deutscher Text · Book contents 8 February 1844, evening [Ste.01_028,01] ‘After this many of His disciples went back and no longer walked with Him.’ [Ste.01_028,02] This passage fits our subject, as you say, to a hair in every respect. [Ste.01_028,03] Why did many of My disciples go away from Me and no longer wish to…

Deutscher Text · Book contents 9 February 1844, evening [Ste.01_029,01] ‘And the devils begged Him, saying, “Send us to the swine, that we may enter them!”’ [Ste.01_029,02] I have already told you that all My deeds contain by far the deeper and more hidden mysteries of My being in the flesh on earth. For I…

Deutscher Text · Book contents 12 February 1844, evening [Ste.01_030,01] ‘And I send the promise of My Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high!’ [Ste.01_030,02] This verse already shows openly in its literal meaning what it carries within. In that respect it is like a…

Deutscher Text · Book contents 14 February 1844, evening [Ste.01_031,01] ‘And he (Zacchaeus) ran ahead and climbed a mulberry tree so that he might see Him, for He was to pass that way.’ [Ste.01_031,02] This verse, too, merely relates an event. In view of an earlier teaching, you might suppose that here, too, a deep…

Deutscher Text · Book contents 16 February 1844, evening [Ste.01_032,01] ‘Now Jesus, seeing His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing there, says to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He says to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to himself.’ [Ste.01_032,02] Among you in the…

Deutscher Text · Book contents 19 February 1844, evening [Ste.01_033,01] ‘Behold, the hour is coming and has already come when you will scatter, each to his own place, and leave Me alone! And I am not alone, for the Father is with Me.’ [Ste.01_033,02] This text speaks of what is now plain everywhere before your…

Deutscher Text · Book contents 21 February 1844, evening [Ste.01_034,01] ‘Whoever believes in Me, out of their body, as Scripture says, will flow streams of living water.’ [Ste.01_034,02] This text is given like a mousetrap and made like a pit for catching lions, panthers and tigers. It is also like a corner-stone over which many…