The Childhood of Jesus
The Gospel of James
Biographical Gospel of the Lord
- Chapter 201 -
A Prediction For The Followers Of Jesus
MARY, EUDOKIA AND JAMES were also among those who were told to leave.
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But Mary nevertheless went in, and Eudokia and James followed her.
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And Mary bent down to the little Child and said,
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'Listen, my little Son! You are really being terribly strict!
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If You already turn me away from the door now, what will You do with me when You become a man?
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See, You must not be that strict with her who carried You under her heart with great fear and much suffering!'
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Hereupon the little Child looked at Mary in an indeed loving but also earnest way and asked,
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'How is it that you call Me your little Son? Do you not recall what the angel said to you?
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How shall you call That which was born of you?
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See, the angel said: And What will be born of you will be called God's Son, the Son of the Most High!
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Since it certainly was that way and not otherwise, how then do you call Me your little Son?
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If I were your Son, you would concern yourself more with Me than with Tullia!
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But since I am not your Son, it follows that Tullia is closer to your heart than I!
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If I play around outside somewhere and then come back in through the door, not a soul meets Me with a flaming heart,
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and I am just like the daily bread for the hired men and maid-servants, and no one spreads out his arms to Me.
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But when some gossip comes here from town, she is immediately received with all honors!
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And so it is now with the foolish Tullia who received her life from Me - you practically crawl to her with all the attention you give her!
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'Me, the Giver of life, you hardly notice!
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Now tell Me, is that right?
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Am I not more than some stupid city gossip and not more than Tullia?
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Oh rejoice all of you who will one day be My followers and servants! For as it now happens to Me, so will it also happen to you!
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Your patrons put you in a corner with the garbage when they are visited by their gossip-brothers and gossip-sisters!' - These words went deep into Mary's heart, and thereafter she paid close attention to them.