The Great Gospel of John · Volume 7

Read in German · Volume contents The task of the 70 who are sent out (17/86) When the Pharisees and also the well-known Jewish Greeks saw that, they came to Me and said: “Lord, we do believe as firmly in You as those who You have sent out now, and we fully know Your teaching…

Read in German · Volume contents Advices of the Lord for Agricola’s return trip. To strengthen faith and trust by practice. To be mature for the reception of the gifts of grace. (17/87) Then came the Roman Agricola to Me and said: “Lord and Master, since everybody is going away from here, also we Romans…

Read in German · Volume contents The 3 degrees of inner life perfection (17/74) I said. “To promise is much easier than to do what has been promised. You are still too much attached to the world and to your great treasures, on which is sticking a lot of blood of widows and orphans, and…

Read in German · Volume contents About life in a monastery and hermits. The purpose of temptations. (17/75) The Pharisees: “Lord and Master. We have heard now from Your divine mouth of the difficulties in obtaining the inner life perfection, but also of the endless advantages of it. The difficulties did not discourage us to…

Read in German · Volume contents True repentance and penance (17/76) Whoever says to Me: ‘Lord, Lord’, is still far away from the true Kingdom of God. However, the one who believes in Me and does what I have taught him to do, will achieve what has been promised and shown to him. And only…

Read in German · Volume contents About the right wisdom and carefulness (17/77) A Pharisee said: “Lord and Master, so according to what You said, by the distribution of our treasures among the poor we may use the right wisdom and carefulness?” [2] I said: “Once I have said something, it has been said for…

Read in German · Volume contents The spiritual eye of the men from Upper-Egypt (17/78) Nicodemus came to Me and said: “Lord, I thank You. By the complete conversion of these two chiefs I have been released of a great fear, because actually it was them whom I feared the most.” [2] I said: “Let…

Read in German · Volume contents The Pharisees are visiting Nicodemus (17/63) When they saw Nicodemus, they went immediately to him and said to him: “Because you knew that we would visit you this afternoon for an important matter, you surely could have waited for us in your house, conforming honor and decency. But because…

Read in German · Volume contents The man from Upper-Egypt reveals the thoughts of the Pharisees (17/64) The man from Upper-Egypt said: “Look, I still am in the highest measure a perfect man of nature and still possess the gifts that God gave us, by which man as the last and most perfect part of…

Read in German · Volume contents The punishment of the rich Barabe (17/65) The one Pharisee said: “How can you say this about us with such a great certainty? Why could we not – even if we are such great sinners – be able to improve our lives? Show us only the full truth and…