GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
enough money to be able to buy salt! Ah, now things are very miserably bad
for us; if you want to suffer hunger for a few days along with me and my
people, then you are heartily welcome to me!
[GGJ.05_172,05] But now be so good as to tell me what drove you then into
this bay that is almost never visited by strangers and which is very difficult to
navigate for large ships! Certainly not a storm; for in this corner, surrounded
on all sides by high mountains, even that cannot enter. Or are you being
persecuted, seeking asylum here until some certain danger has passed?
Actually, that is all the same to me! If I can provide some service for you,
then it would only give me a very particular joy. My questions are indeed
somewhat cheeky, but you dear friends must forgive me! I am curious in my
nature and know well who it is that I am sheltering. Your great, almost
completely new ship that quite certainly cost around a hundred silver pennies
shows me more than enough that you are not poor. For us it is obviously a
great, surprising rarity if some strangers come to us by mistake; and
whenever such luck was granted us, then there was certainly always some
objection with the visitors to this very most pathetic and isolated area.
Therefore will you immediately tell me, as the head of this little village of
beggars, what I would like to learn most faithfully from you above all, but only
quite according to the truth!‖
[GGJ.05_172,06] I say, ―Well then, if the curiosity is plaguing you so much,
then know that we are Galileans just like you, and once again, that we have
not been followed by anyone here at all, but instead we came here freely,
firstly in order to visit this very strange area, to climb one of these high
mountains and, as decently as possible, to help you in your very well-known
great affliction! – If you are satisfied now, then speak!‖
[GGJ.05_172,07] The representative says, ―Quite completely; for no-one
would call into question whether you are Galileans or not, and thus one can
give your statement full faith, which one naturally cannot do for the Greeks
and Romans, because they almost always speak differently to the way they
think, which we call ‗lying‘. Rest here under the shade of this only tree of
mine for the moment and I will go into my hut and see how I can put together
a considerable midday meal!‖
Chapter 173
[GGJ.05_173,01] The host hurries into his hut with his wife and his already
grown children, but soon comes back full of joy and thanks and says in the
most joyful tone, ―Which of you did that for me secretly then? My larder is so
superbly filled that we all have enough to eat for a full year! Yes, now you
may stay here a year long, and we will never get to the end of our great
provisions! Wherever I and my family must only have had our eyes, that no-
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