The Great Gospel of John · Volume 3

Read in German · Volume contents [03_073,01] Cyrenius says, “Yes, Lord and Master in Your spirit of eternity! Now I have no further questions to ask in this area. Only it would be very desirable that everything would be written down word by word; for this forms the basis for a complete and best constitution.”…

Read in German · Volume contents [03_074,01] But while Cyrenius with great joy looks through his rolls only as fleetingly as possible and also constantly makes one honoring face after the other, I say to Raphael that he should now free Jarah and Josoe again of their present, short banishment and should now bring them…

Read in German · Volume contents [03_075,01] But the twelve don’t like Raphael’s speech and so they begin to think of means how they could quite secretly recommend returning to Jerusalem, even if empty-handed; “For,” says Suetal, “we have not yet undertaken anything punishable against the temple. What violence had to do with us, we…

Read in German · Volume contents [03_060,01] Suetal says, “Friend, no person of this world speaks as you do! You must be a higher being from God’s heaven! Are you actually the great Savior of Nazareth himself?” [03_060,02] Raphael says, “Oh, not at all! I am eternally unworthy to even untie His shoelace! I am…

Read in German · Volume contents [03_061,01] Raphael: “Look, let’s take the inside of a house. Everything has long been in the greatest disorder; its rooms are full of dirt and all sorts of feculence. But the lord of the house has always something to do outside and therefore never takes time to clean the…

Read in German · Volume contents [03_062,01] At this it becomes silent at the table, but the thirty young Pharisees and Levites become annoyed with one another because their speaker, Hebram, has also ordered silence. Particularly annoyed is a certain Risa, whose parents possess a lot of property which he would inherit after their death…

Read in German · Volume contents [03_063,01] Hebram says, “Friend, many times already I have heard the matter presented in the way you have now quite sensibly presented it; but it does not apply here, for over there is sitting more than a usual magician who is well- versed in all Persian and Egyptian conjuring!…

Read in German · Volume contents [03_064,01] Hebram says, “Yes and no! In this purely earthly human way you are correct, in my opinion, but according to the purely divine you are very wrong and are therefore still on the false path; for God’s plans look different to ours. You see, if we had placed…

Read in German · Volume contents [03_065,01] Here I turn around and say to Hebram, “Well, well, you have already made great progress in wisdom, as you all have; truly, one can take great joy in such disciples and they will soon be able to be used as good workers in God’s vineyard! But I…

Read in German · Volume contents [03_066,01] (The Lord) “You see, the conception of a person is a peculiar thing! In order to produce a correct and healthy fruit, two mature people, namely a man and a woman, must have a correct kinship of souls between one another, without which they will achieve with difficulty…