" 'Father Abraham, I dare not trouble you; but I see with you scabby Lazaras, who used to lie at my gate; send him to me, and let him dip his finger in water to cool my throat, for I am burning with fire.' But Abraham said: 'Why should I send Lazarus into the Barnes to you? You had all you wanted in the other world, and Lazarus had nothing but sorrow. I should like to do what you ask, but I cannot, for there is no communication between us and you.' Then the rich man said: 'If it is so, Father Abraham, at least send Lazarus to my house. I left five brothers, and am sorry for them. Let him tell them what riches bring, lest they too come to the torment I suffer.' And Abraham said, "They know it. Moses and all the prophets have told of it.' But the rich man replied, 'Still, it would be better if some one rose from the dead and went to them: it would make them bethink themselves.' But Abraham replied, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prohpets, neither would they hear though some one rose from the dead."
Luke XVI, 13-15; 19-3L
XXX.
After this Jesus went into Galilee, and lived there with his parents. And when the Jewish Feast of the Harvest came, the brothers of Jesus prepared to go up, and asked Jesus to come with them to the Feast. They did not believe in his teaching, and said to him: "There trow I You say that the Jewish worship of God is wrong, and that you know the right way to worship God by deeds. If you really think that you know what no one else knows, then come with us to the Feast—there will be many people there, and you can announce your teaching to them all. If they all believe you, your disciples will see that you are right. Wh^
hide? You say that our worship of God is wrong, and that you know the right way: well then, show it to everybody!"
And Jesus said to them: 'There is a time for everything. I will go when the time comes." So his brothers went away, but he stayed behind.
There were many people at the Feast, and they disputed about the teaching of Jesus. Some said his teaching was true; others that his teaching only disturbed the people. When the Feast was half over, Jesus himself came to Jerusalem, and went into the Temple. In the porch of the Temple were cattle: cows and bulls, as well as sheep, and cages of pigeons, and money-changers who sat beside counters with money. All this was wanted for the sacrifices to God. But Jesus, entering the Temple, and seeing many people there, first of all drove the cattle out of the Temple, and let the pigeons go, and upset the tables of the moneychangers, and then said to the people:
"The prophet Isaiah said: 'The house of God is not the Temple in Jerusalem, but the whole world of God's people.' And the prohpet Jeremiah also said: *Do not believe the false saying, that this is the house of the Eternal; do not believe it, but change your lives and do not judge falsely, nor oppress the stranger, the widow and the orphan; do not shed innocent blood, and do not go into the house of God and then say: "Now we can safely do wrong." Make not my house a den of thieves. I, God, do not rejoice at your sacrifices, but I rejoice at your love of one another.* Understand that these words of the prophet mean: 'The living temple is the whole world of people, when they love one another. We must serve God not in a Temple, but by living in the spirit, and by good actions.'"
All the people listened and wondered at his words, and a^ked one of another, "How does he^ without learning, Хааощ
all this ?" And Jesus heard that everybody was astonished at his words, and he said: "My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me; for he who invents for himself looks for fame from men, but he who seeks for that which He who sent him wants, is true, and there is no falseness in him. I only teach you to fulfil the will of the Father. If you b^n to fulfil the will of God, you will know that I have not invented what I say, but that this teaching comes from God." And many said: "People say he is a false Prophet, but here he speaks openly before everybody, and no one says anything against him. The only thing that prevents one believing that he is the Messiah (God's Messenger) is that it is written that when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he came from; but we know this man, and his whole family.**
Then Jesus said to them: "You know me, and where 1 come from in the body, but you do not know where I come from in the spirit. You do not know from whom I come in the spirit, though He is the only one you need know. If you had been told that I am the Messiah, you would have believed in me, the man; but you do not believe the Father, Who is in me and in you. One must believe only the Father."
John Vn, 1-29; //, 13-16; Matt. XXI, 13; XII, 7.
XXXI.
And many of the people, seeing all this and hearing him, said: "He really is a prophet." Others said: "This is the Messiah." But some said: "Can the Messiah come from Galilee ? It is said in the Scriptures that the Messiah will come from the seed of David, out of Bethlehem, the place David came from."
And there arose a dispute about him, and an Station sprang up among the people.
Then the High Priests sent men to seize him, but the men could not make up their minds to do so; and when they returned to the High Priests and Pharisees, the latter asked them: "Why have you not brought him?" And they replied: "No man ever spoke like this man."
The Pharisees said to them: "Have you too been led astray? Do any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees, believe in him ? Only the accursed people believe in him, and they do not know the law."
And they all returned to their homes.
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives, and spent the night there with his disciples; and in the morning he came again to the Temple, and many people came to listen to him, and he taught them again, saying: "My teaching gives light to the world. He who accepts it will not walk tn darkness but will see clearly what is good and what is evil. I teach what my Father, the Spirit who sent me, teaches to every man,"
And they asked him: "Where is your Father?"
He replied: "If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
They asked him: "Who are you?"
He said: "I am that spirit which had no beginning and will have no end. I am the Son of Man, but I acknowledge the spirit of God to be my Father. When you raise up in yourselves the Son of Man, you will know who I am, and will understand that I do nothing of myself, and say nothing of myself, but do and say only what my Father has taught me." John VU. 40-9, 53; VHI, 12-29.
XXXII.
The Jews surrounded Jesus, and said: "All you say is difficult to understand, and does not agree with our Scriptures. Do not torment us, but tell us plainly: Are you the Messiah who, according to our Scriptures, is to come into the world?"
And Jesus answered them: "I have already told you who I am, but you do not believe it. Do what I tell you, and then you will understand who I am, and why I have come. He who follows me and does what I say—he who understands my teaching and fulfils it—is with me and with the Father. I and the Father are one."
And the Jews were offended by these words, and took up stones to kill him.
And he asked them: "Why do you want Ю kill me ?"
They answered: "We want to kill you because you, a man, make yourself out to be God."
And Jesus answered them: "I said that I am a son of God, and am one with the Father when I do His will. He who acknowledges himself to be a son of God ceases to be a slave, and receives everlasting life. Аз a servant does not live always in his master^s house, but the master's son always lives at home, so a man viba lives in the spirit is united with the Father, and lives eternally. I tell you truly that he who keeps my word will never see death."
Then the Jews said to him: "Now we know that there is a devil in you. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead, yet you say that he who fulfils your words will never see death. Are you greater than our Father Abraham? Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead, but he whu fulfils your words will not see death!"