The Great Gospel of John · Volume 5

Read in German · Volume contents [GGJ.05_150,01] The Pharisee says, “Very highest and most strictly correct ruler! We are scribes and have studied the chronicles; therefore I believe that we cannot then be supposed to be all that stupid!” [GGJ.05_150,02] Cyrenius says, “Look, even this remark of yours was as foolish as possible and just…

Read in German · Volume contents [GGJ.05_039,01] (Raphael) "Incidentally a people that have a big imagination are never educated academically too profoundly because the too powerful imagination and the fantasy originating from it always hinder that. It suits these people better to look at all kinds of silly pictures in their imagination, than to really…

Read in German · Volume contents [GGJ.05_151,01] At this the Pharisee made a positive attempt, stood very straight and began to speak in the following way: “Highest ruler! You know much, and your understanding shines like a purest diamond in the sunlight; but I also know some things, even if I do not always show…

Read in German · Volume contents [GGJ.05_040,01] (Raphael) “What was the result of this? Look and listen: Nobody wanted to be his neighbor’s servant any more, everyone worked and lived for himself in the end, and no one was to be had at any price for his neighbor’s use. However, the people saw in the…

Read in German · Volume contents [GGJ.05_152,01] At this Cyrenius interrupted the narrator and said to him, “By no means are you as foolish as I believed in the beginning; but because you seem to understand things so very well in their nature, I would like then to learn from you how you will explain…

Read in German · Volume contents [GGJ.05_041,01] (Raphael) “But later, when the lords of the land became rich to varying degrees through the slave’s work, so that some became significantly richer than others, soon envy, quarrel and strife popped up, and then it was seen to be necessary to create civil laws that everyone had…

Read in German · Volume contents [GGJ.05_153,01] Cyrenius says, “From all this that you have now told and expressed, emerges clearly however that you as a pious servant of God have never believed in a god; but how can one be even a strict servant of a being that does not exist at all for…

Read in German · Volume contents [GGJ.05_042,01] (Raphael) “The Indians managed their affairs much more cleverly! The nation sticks to its superstition, in itself innocent, but nonetheless still believes in a very highest divine being and in its worldly representatives, who bear the most arduous concerns about the maintenance of the old stereotypical order, so…

Read in German · Volume contents [GGJ.05_154,01] I say, “Just let him explain My miracles now and you will be persuaded that he will know how to explain them in just as naturally a way as those of Moses! Only then will we show him what a great mistake he is making. Call him back…

Read in German · Volume contents [GGJ.05_043,01] (Raphael) “You see, above India, on the other side of the highest mountains on this Earth, there is another very large empire which encompasses at least five times as many people as the Roman one. All those people have almost the same religion as the Indians. They live…