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The Great Gospel of John · Volume 2

Jakob Lorber · English translation by Jürgen Pless, with additions by Albert Hoffmann

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Chapters

Chapters 1–25
  1. Jesus and His stay at Kis and Nazareth
  2. Judas Iscariot, the gold thief.
  3. Correct application of miracular- and healing powers.
  4. Visit to a drip-stone cave.
  5. History of the discovered treasure.
  6. The emergence and collapse of the limestone cave.
  7. Faustus finds the treasures in the storehouse well-sorted and under guard.
  8. About the Kingdom of heaven
  9. The Lord depicts the nature of heaven and hell in parables.
  10. The Commandment of Order
  11. The Lord and His disciples” departure to Nazareth. [Matt. Chap. 13: 53]
  12. Sarah’s second resurrection from death.
  13. [01] Jairus now covers the grave and locks the door behind us, whereby one could get into the grave chamber and finally to the grave itself, and then walks with us. However, about seventy steps outside this school and chapel is the little dwelling of the keeper and guard located, with whom Jairus obtained the light earlier.
  14. 01] Now the Greek Philopold from Kana in Samaria came to Me and said: “Lord, I have been now over three days with You but could not find one moment to discuss with You what I according to Your will have accomplished, and how through my preaching which I gave them after Your departure from Kana, have converted all to believe in You. It seems now that You have some spare time; could You also listen a little to what I have to say!”
  15. Philopold’s testimony to Jesus” Deity.
  16. The Lord visits the Synagogue. [Matt. 13:54]
  17. The Lord reveals a text from Isaiah.
  18. About the nature of God, and worshipping Him.
  19. The spiritually blind, impudent and confused Pharisees.
  20. The Templers fear the Roman court.
  21. Cyrenius and the Templers
  22. Healing of a palsied. The Nazarene’s witness of Jesus.[Matt 13:55-56.]
  23. The Nazarenes rebuked. [Matt. 13:57]
  24. Cyrenius” comments on the Nazarenes
  25. The unworthy people. [Matt. 13:55]
Chapters 26–50
  1. Hints for law-givers.
  2. Suitability of the ten commandments of God for the nature of the soul,
  3. The need for spiritual freedom and a free will.
  4. Blessedness of free development.
  5. Development and law.
  6. Jairus” talk about the effect of miracles.
  7. Basics about God’s nature.
  8. Healing of an old Jew’s sick relative.
  9. 01] However, the pharisees from Nazareth have heard about the dangerous illness of the occupants of this house and that they never will recover. They went there to settle everything about the tenth of the estate and about the funeral; since after death they had no right anymore to the inheritance, because the ill has departed without their support, – in which case the state acted as heir. When thus the pharisees arrived already late at night when the people of the house began to go to bed, the greedy transporters of souls into the aftermath showed very disappointed faces when they found the people of the house in the best of health of whom they were expecting at least half of them to be dead already.
  10. Occasion with the inheritance-seeking Pharisees and the old man’s son-in-law.
  11. The Pharisees’ elder Roban with Jesus.
  12. Jose the old man thanks the Lord.
  13. About the Lord’s Deity and His humanness.
  14. Angelic influence upon man.
  15. Love towards the Lord.
  16. True love for God is God’s spirit within every man.
  17. About judgement day.
  18. The Lord Jesus and His at the catch.
  19. Personal details about Borus.
  20. About the inner nature of angels.
  21. About physicians” service out of neighborly love.
  22. Suggestions for Jairus. About outward sacraments.
  23. Concerning Jairus” resignation.
  24. Jairus” resignation. The Lord at the Synagogue.
  25. The Elders” comments on the state of Jewry.
Chapters 51–75
  1. One speakers’ testimony to the Ark of the Covenant.
  2. [01] Say the elder: “We now admit that you are right to a certain extend, – but not with everything; therefore you are lacking at least twenty years experience. The temple looks like you have told us; but it was not always like this. For if you are able to think thoroughly and logically, you must necessarily accept the statement as undeniable true: ‘If something true and real never existed, no person could ever think to replicate something false and untrue.’ Why does one in our over-informed time of all kinds of arts come across false diamonds, false pearls, as well as false gold and silver?
  3. Chiwar’s testimony on Jesus” works and life.
  4. The angel’s counselling of the converted Clerics
  5. The relation of the people to their leaders.
  6. Roban and Kisjonah relate their experiences.
  7. The service of the angels in the universe.
  8. About man’s free self-determination and his sinful self-degradation.
  9. About the big battle within man.
  10. Usefulness of the passions.
  11. The benefits of free will.
  12. Thinking within the heart.
  13. About the return of the Prodigal son.
  14. About the nature, life and work of nature spirits.
  15. [01] Says Kisjonah: “Yes, Lord, this is quite clear to me and that all the more so since the miners who are digging for all kinds of ore in my mines have often told me similar things, how sometimes bread and wine had disappeared and they did not know who among them could have played such a practical joke on them even involving theft. Sometimes when the hungry miners vented their anger, they heard a resounding laughter and some also claim to have seen childsized human beings frisking about in front of them and in a variety of colours: blue, red, green, yellow and also quite black.
  16. About magicians and fortunetellers.
  17. The Lord heals one berserk.
  18. A Gospel for the well-to-do.
  19. In the tomb.
  20. Resurrection of Josoe.
  21. Bab and his wife astonished at the miracle. Promise of immortality for Josoe.
  22. About true divine worship in man’s heart.
  23. Supper at Mary’s.
  24. Judas and Thomas argues.
  25. The Lord rebukes Judas.
Chapters 76–100
  1. About humility and self-denial.
  2. A yardstick for the three kinds of love.
  3. The boy Josoe’s great wisdom.
  4. Two angels offer Josoe their services.
  5. Cyrenius adopts Josoe.
  6. The death of John the Baptist. Jesus in the wilderness and at the Sea of Genezareth.
  7. The story of John the Baptist’s end. [Mat. 14: 1-12]
  8. The occasion with the new Temple Chief at Nazareth.
  9. Chiwar’s testimony about Jesus and John.
  10. The Lord praises Roban and Chiwar.
  11. The new Chief Korah and Chiwar in the Nazarene Synagogue.
  12. Chiwar and Korah discussing Sarah’s awakening from death.
  13. Chiwar’s opinion of the Temple.
  14. Korah and Chiwar discussing the Messiah. Satan challenges Chiwar to a fight.
  15. Korah remembers the Lord from the cleansing of the Temple.
  16. Jesus’ friends at Borus’ house.
  17. The Lord’s mercy upon mankind.
  18. Borus speaking about human nature
  19. The shared life of the Lord’s friends at Nazareth.
  20. Healing and feeding miracles of the five thousand people in the desert.
  21. The disciples upon the stormy sea.
  22. Judas praises the Essenes” miracles.
  23. John and Bartholomew clear up Judas and about the Essenes” false wonders.
  24. The philosophy of the Essenes.
  25. The distressed disciples upon the sea.
Chapters 101–125
  1. Peter’s test of faith.
  2. Arrival at Gennesareth.
  3. The Lord with His at the innkeeper Ebahl’s
  4. The Lord blesses Ebahl’s family. Rebuking the Essenes.
  5. The Lord and the Roman Centurion.
  6. The Roman Chief’s wordly self-assurance.
  7. The Lord gives the Chief hints about His nature and ministry.
  8. [01] Says I: “A prophet is a simple, natural man just like you with all kinds of weaknesses. However, since he has a wise heart wherein neither anger nor vengefulness nor envy or pride or adultery or various kinds of harlotry can strike roots, the Divine Spirit cleanses his heart of the manifold dross of the world. And when the heart has been cleansed like that, the Divine Spirit pours a light from the heavens into such a heart.
  9. The prophets as messengers of God and their distinction from the Lord’s nature
  10. The walk upon the see.
  11. About true prayer
  12. Home discipline
  13. Praising appropriately, and some dangers of praising
  14. Jarah and her diverse prayer experiences
  15. Jarah beholds heaven open
  16. Jesus’ teachings to become universal property.
  17. Sick ones arrive at Ebahl’s. The Jerusalem guests in their mission(Mat.14:35)
  18. Occasion of the Centurion with the Templers.
  19. The power of love
  20. Jarah’s dreams about the crucifixion and Resurrection
  21. The Centurion discussing the Templers’ maliciousness with the Lord
  22. Large-scale healing through touching of the Lord’s coat
  23. The Lord and the Chief (Matt:15;1-9
  24. Julius’s keen talk about the blessing of the Lord
  25. Three documents (Matt:10-14)
Chapters 126–150
  1. The Lord’s cautioning against the Templers’ cunning
  2. The Lord speaks about the spirit of love
  3. A discussion between the Templers and the Essenes
  4. The Lord and the two Essenes
  5. A miraculous mountain climb
  6. Upon the “morning head” pinnacle
  7. About the nature of fear
  8. Christ, moderator between heaven and earth
  9. The lifting of the Galilean Sea.
  10. Testing Jarah’s love
  11. The angel’s power. Visiting a star
  12. The inner way of viewing the Creation
  13. School for self-denial in the beyond
  14. A look at stellar world order
  15. Developmental periods in the beyond
  16. About the measure of the human spirit
  17. About real spiritual greatness
  18. The disciples are woken from sleep
  19. Jarah’s eulogy
  20. The substance of the collective dream
  21. Jarah shows her tokens
  22. The believer’ communing with the Lord in their hearts
  23. Natural considerations and spiritual significance
  24. Concerning the sunrise and morning phenomena
  25. The Essenes are commissioned to start a Freedom’s school
Chapters 151–175
  1. The blessed morning meal upon the mount
  2. Satan appears upon the mountain
  3. Descending from the mountain
  4. A healing miracle at Ebahl’s Inn
  5. The zeal of love
  6. About sexuality of the archangels
  7. About the giving of alms, and anniversaries
  8. David’s Psalm 47
  9. About loving your enemies
  10. The shipmates recall their previous night’s experiences
  11. The shipmate and Raphael
  12. Reception of the Pharisees at Genezareth
  13. Julius the Centurion tells a few Templers’ episodes
  14. About following Jesus
  15. Raphael and Jarah
  16. About love, gentleness and patience
  17. The Lord’s farewell and departure to Sidon and Tyre (Mat15.21)
  18. Occasion with the Canaanite woman at Tyre (Mat. 15:22-29)
  19. About spiritual possession
  20. The miraculous spring
  21. A great healing miracle on the mountain (Mat. 15:30-31)
  22. The Lord foretells the future of His doctrine
  23. The miraculous feeding of the four thousand (Mat. 15:32-39
  24. The Pharisees’ and Sadducees’ attempt to ensnare the Lord
  25. The Lord in a poor man’s hut at Caesarea Philippi (Mat.16:13)
Chapters 176–200
  1. The disciples’ testimony to Christ – (Mat. 16: 13-20)
  2. The hut owner Mark tells Temple abominations
  3. One Temple episode
  4. The Disciples’ agitation about the Temple tale
  5. The blessed catch. About the Temple manure
  6. Marcus and the Pharisaical tithe hunters
  7. The Lord foretells His death and rising
  8. Cyrenius’ visit announced
  9. Marcus welcomes and greets Cyrenius
  10. The angel’s manner of teaching
  11. Cyrenius’ present for Marcus
  12. The sea-bound company
  13. The Lord and Simon Juda
  14. A military vessel approaches. The big catch
  15. The new guests
  16. About the angels’ and the worldly teaching methods
  17. About the Temple’s right to tithes and dues
  18. Dealing with the wrong doers and possessed
  19. Jarah talks wisely
  20. Matter and spirit
  21. Jarah loosens Josoe’s gordian knot
  22. About terrestrial man’s limits of knowledge
  23. What is truth
  24. The secret of all wisdom’s foundation
  25. Josoe and Jarah in conversation
Chapters 201–225
  1. Jarah’s garden observations
  2. Applying Jarah’s correlations
  3. Materialism and its proponents
  4. Josoe and Jarah discussing Judas
  5. Diverse nations need different guidance
  6. Josoe excuses himself
  7. Josoe’s concept about divine acquiescence
  8. Coercive law and love
  9. About inner morality
  10. The nature of matter and soul
  11. Cyrenius’ socialistic views
  12. Poverty as educator
  13. The consequences of over-abundance
  14. The contradictions in Genesis
  15. Appearance of the first primordial man
  16. A grain of wheat in development
  17. Man’s spiritual development
  18. Soul and body
  19. The Creation of Heaven and Earth
  20. Earth and light
  21. Separation of light from darkness
  22. The ultimate aim of the Creation in aggregate
  23. Cyrenius testimony to the Creation
  24. Fall of the spirits; Adam and original sin
  25. The power of hereditary influence
Chapters 226–244
  1. Worldly concerns and their deleterious effects upon the soul
  2. About the fall of the spirits
  3. Power and resistance
  4. About Satan’s nature
  5. Educating the primordial spirits
  6. The consequence of Lucifer’s fall
  7. Shell and soul
  8. About knowledge
  9. Marcu’s view about one’s neighbour
  10. Marcus rescues shipwrecked Pharisees
  11. The Pharisees as critics
  12. The Pharisees’ decision
  13. The Lord’s guidance and reference to love of neighbour
  14. Julius passes his supreme advice unto the Pharisees
  15. Jarah gives testimony of the Lord
  16. The Temple’s intentions exposed
  17. The Archangel Raphael’s miracle with the stone
  18. The young Pharisee’s apology
  19. Julius instructions to the Pharisees

Edition and sources

This reading edition follows the English EPUB available from LorberJakab.hu, credited to Jürgen Pless (2004). The edition credits Albert Hoffmann with supplying missing chapters, paragraphs and sentences, and indicates that further editing is needed. The reading text follows that edition, including its original paragraph numbering.

For printed books, see the Lorber-Verlag. The Jakob-Lorber-Förderungswerk e.V. supports the publication and dissemination of Lorber’s writings and the preservation of his original manuscripts.

Edition and copyright notice from the source

(244 Chapters)

Dictated to Jakob Lorber through the inner word by our Lord Jesus Christ during

August 1851 to July 1864

This is God’s Word and God’s Word is free. It may be copied freely on condition that the text will not be changed. To protect the integrity of this translation a copyright is added:

©Copyright 2004: Jürgen Pless

Original German book: “Das grosse Evangelium Johannes – Band 2” (1851-1864).

Missing chapters, paragraphs and sentences added by Albert Hoffmann. Still requires proper editing.