The Great Gospel of John
Volume 4
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi (cont.)
- Chapter 26 -
Jesus raises the two drowning victims from the dead. Zinka recognizes the Lord.
But during our walk up and down the shore of the sea, we came to the place where our Risa cared about the two drowned persons and waited for them to become alive again.
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Cyrenius said to him: "Now, friend Risa, does the two already start to show very faint signs of life?"
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Said Risa: "High lord, every effort is pure in vain! Those two surly getting more dead instead of alive; for them every effort and further treatment is in vain! Only the omnipotence of God can make them alive again! No positioning and no poring wine into their mouths is of any use!"
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Say I: "Is this your opinion!?"
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Says Risa: "Lord, just look at the blue spots and smell the already quite advanced process of decay, and You Yourself will agree with me that those two will only become alive again by the omnipotence of God on Daniel's Judgement Day!"
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At this point also Zinka pushed forward, since he was quite knowledgeable about dead people, if they really were completely dead, and looked at both drowned persons. After completing his examination he said: "The friend was speaking the truth! Those two have to wait until Judgement Day in their complete state of death, provided that there ever will be one on this earth, - what is difficult for me to believe! Since I know what will become of such a heap of meat: moths, worms, flies, beatles, all kind of gras and other plants! How many are torn and eaten by wild beasts! How many die in a fire! Will all this just like that come together again on Judgement Day like it is now, because then I will completely give up to be a human for ever! I, Zinka from Jerusalem, knowledgeable in many things, state here, that on the supposedly coming Judgement Day even the omnipotence of God will take its time, when it comes to reviving those tow female heaps of meat! It will give to their souls a new, spiritual body; but in those two bodies no soul will be bothered with a headache anymore!"
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Say I to Zinka: "Friend! You know a few things and quite often you hit the nail on its head; but in this case, strictly speaking, your blow is a little off the mark! You are quite right that the soul in the beyond will never again walk in this body, but those two bodies should at least for some time become useful carriers for their souls! If I want it, those two must awake again! One of them will even become your quite fertile wife and you will love her beyond measure; the other should become the wife of the still single Risa, - but he will not wake a fruit in her!"
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After that I call both drowned, and in a moment they stand up and look very surprised around themselves and cannot grasp, where they are, and what happened to them.
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But Risa and Zinka fall on their knees before Me and Zinka calls: "It is You, which Johannes has announced! But You are not a prophet, You are Jehovah Himself!"
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During this awakening scene also the Persians who were still with us and the known Schabbi came closer and Schabbi said to Zinka: "This time, you have, as I feel it, judged correctly! Yes, it is like that, friend, - this is Jehovah! And the youth, who let us hear this heavenly tone, is an archangel, actually the same, who already has guided the young Tobias on this earth. This is how things stand: this is the great Messiah who has been prophesied by all the prophets and seers, and with Him starts a new, spiritual kingdom on this earth!
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It is Him that many will become annoyed about and want to attack Him and do with Him what Herodes did to Johannes; but all who will do that, will shatter at His power and become stupid and blind like the darkest night before His wisdom! Since the earth has never carried His likeness in its flesh!
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What I tell you in the name of my twenty companions, I tell you without shyness; since from now on I do not fear the world anymore, because I got acquainted with Him, who is the only one to fear from all those who would and will raise against Him! Oh, He will thoroughly examine the sinners and thousand times woe to the sinners! He will fight nobody with the sword in His hand, - but the power of His word will judge and destroy them!
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About the power which lies in His words, you still have the completely naked truth in front of you! These two maidens were completely dead, so that nobody could raise any doubts about it! He only said: 'Stand up!', - and the two stood up and are living now like new born, revived and healthy and have a perfect clearest consciousness; it would only be nice if the two dear creatures could get dressed! - But I know what I will do! Among the Persians are a few women who carry a triple set of clothing with them; each one can contribute one dress and these two can be helped!"