The Great Gospel of John
Volume 10
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
The Lord in Aphek
- Chapter 94 -
The Lord heals the sick in the inn.
After half an hour when all the sick - about 30 all together - were brought into the hall, the innkeeper said: "Look, o Lord, Lord, here are the sick of my house now. If You want to heal them, please do so, then my whole house will believe in You and greatly honor and love You."
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I said: "Then it will be done according to your faith."
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After I had said that, they all were healed at once, in such a way as if there never was anything wrong with them.
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When they hardly could stop glorifying and praising My Being, and the healed ones were thinking that I was a god in the sense of their pagan teaching, they asked Me while they were on their knees if I would be so merciful to tell them if I were perhaps Jupiter himself or another god, so that they could then always express the greatest honor and gratitude to that god.
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But I said: "I am neither Jupiter nor any other of your series of gods who never existed, do not exist and never will exist.
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Go now all to your rooms and take food and some wine and strengthen your limbs. All the things that you should further believe and think of Me will be proclaimed to you tomorrow."
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Then the healed ones went immediately to their rooms, and several of them walked to a few priests who were gathered in another hall of this inn and were still deliberating as to how they still could extort more offerings from the people. And they told them how they were miraculously healed by a Man who was according to His clothing a Jew, but worked by His word and will as a true, living God.
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When the priests heard that about Me, and saw that the former sick ones whom they knew well, were now standing completely healed before them, they did not know what to do.
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One of the priests said: "Let us go ourselves to that peculiar Man, then it will appear what is behind Him, because the dumb people cannot form a correct opinion about such things. But let first one of us go there, test that Wonder Man and tell us then what kind of person He is. He is probably one of the Essenes who are very well acquainted with all sorts of sorcery."
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Then one of them, a Roman who was well acquainted with many arts and sciences, came to us in the dining hall, greeted the captain, and then he directly asked for Me.
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The captain said very surly to him: "Here at my right side sits the One whose name we are not worthy to speak out."
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When the priest heard that, he became less bold, turned to Me and said: "Forgive me that I take the liberty to ask You with all respect and modesty how You were able to heal the sick without any means. I also understand many things and have much experience, and therefore I know how to make an opinion about what a person can achieve who is well acquainted with the secret powers of nature. Without certain secret means no magician or priest has, as far as I know, performed a miracle that only the gods can do - if they truly and really exist. But with You it seems nevertheless to be so that You can perform deeds by Your word and Your will - and You do not need any tools for that?
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How did You attain to such willpower, and how can also another person attain to this? For it is sure that with human beings there are great differences in willpower, and from that it can be concluded that someone who already possesses a strong will from nature, would, with a correct development of his will, finally be able to reach an amazing power, especially when he also would be completely acquainted with the secret powers, mights and abilities of the great nature.
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But where and how can one attain to such development of his will? Where and how did You attain to such willpower as almost never existed before?"