Great Gospel of John

The Great Gospel of John (in the original German published as Das große Evangelium Johannis or Großes Evangelium Johannes) is a neo-revelationist text by Jakob Lorber, extending to about 5,500 pages in print, published in ten volumes.

The Roman centurion is willing to execute the Pharisees because of their attempt to bribe him, yet Jesus says to let them go, after dividing their plunder: one third to Rome, one-third to the centurion's local needs, and one-third to the poor people of the nearby communities, some of whose children had been kidnapped by the Pharisees, to be sold as slaves.

[citation needed] Lorber does not reveal Jesus as one of three separate divine persons in a holy Trinity according to teachings of the main Christian churches.

Jesus as the son is light and wisdom, the word of God, which emanates from the fire of everlasting love.

[7] In chapter 58 of the second book of the Great Gospel of John verse 3, the angel explains that one should speak to God as if He was one's equal.

Jesus came to Earth, according to Lorber's writings, to bring people to the right path, through friendly and loving teaching.

[citation needed] In chapter 23:6 of the first book of the Great Gospel of John, it is explained that only one thing is necessary, and that is to adhere to the teaching of Jesus.

[15] In the Great Gospel of John, book three chapter 215 verse 2, it is explained how sex should never be engaged in for the pleasant feelings associated with it, but always only to produce an offspring.

[16] In chapter 242 of the first book (verse 10 and 13) of the Great Gospel of John, it is preached that certain food should be avoided for health reasons.

Later it was numbered and published in ten volumes and divided into chapters by C. F. Landbeck, Neu-theosophischer Verlag and Neu-Salems-Verlag.

E. F. Schumacher wrote about the ten big books of the Great Gospel: "(They) contain many strange things which are unacceptable to the modern mentality, but at the same time such a plethora of high wisdom and insight that it would be difficult to find anything more impressive in the whole of world literature.