time will come, and has already come, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is looking for such worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth
– In Capernaum there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he came to Him and asked Him to come and heal his son, who was dying. 48 Jesus said to him: You will not believe unless you see signs and wonders. 49 The courtier says to him: Lord! come before my son is dead. 50 Jesus saith unto him, Go, thy son is well. He believed the word that Jesus had spoken to him, and went.51 On the way his servants met him and said, Your son is well. 52 He asked them: At what time did it feel better? They said to him: Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.53 From this the father learned that this was the hour at which Jesus said to him: Your son is healthy, and he and all his house have believed. 54 This is the second miracle that Jesus performed.
John, chapter 5
“1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus came to Jerusalem” – Lord, how, again? You might think that Jesus was doing nothing but walking back to Jerusalem 200 km away through the mountains on foot, off-road. As if it was smeared with honey there.
What for? Well, to prove that He preached only to the Jews: it is amazing that the Jews who rejected Him go out of their way to prove to the whole world that He is a Jew and was sent by their Jewish God to preach only to them.
In general, this whole chapter looks like a denture, written by someone using some of the words of Jesus in the name of the same Judaization, in order to firmly bind him to Jewry and Jewish faith in the ancestral god Yahweh. But in this chapter, the Judaizers jumped over their heads, contriving to carry out all this Judaizing editing twice, adding a later version on the second floor over the first one. However, in a conversation with a Samaritan woman, we have already seen even more bold approaches.
“2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five indoor underpasses.3 In these lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the movement of water, 4 For an angel would go down from time to time in the pool and stirred up the water, and who first entered into it after stirring of the water, he recovered, made well of whatever disease he had.”
This is the first floor of the editing added to create an impression of the authenticity of the ensuing fairy tale. Here is a description of the place of the event, and – at the same time – the Jewish legend, which later, much later, was transformed into an Orthodox way. No Angels of the Lord existed anywhere except pagan legends, and do not exist, all these are birthmarks of ancient Jewish paganism. Again, it is convenient to put into the story about Jesus the miracles of the Jewish God who sends angels to mock God’s chosen ones: let them trample and pass over each other, and we from heaven will enjoy this gladiatorial battle of the crippled – why wouldn’t the angel heal all the sick at once, with water or without water. Just because they can. But they cannot, due to the fabulousness of the angels themselves, the creations of the wild superstitious mind of the ancient pagans.
Further, the construction of the Jewish version continues.
“5 There was a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6 Jesus, seeing him lying down and knowing that he had been lying for a long time, said to him,” Do you want to be well? “7 The sick man answered him: Yes, Lord; but I do not have a person who would put me in the pool when the water is disturbed; and when I come, another one comes down before me. 8 Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and walk. 9 And he immediately recovered, and took his bed and went. And it happened on the sabbath day. 10 Therefore the Jews said to the one who was healed: Today is sabbath; You must not take a bed. 11 He answered them: He who healed me, He said to me: Take your bed and walk. 12 They asked him: Who is the Man who told you, Take your bed and walk? 13 He who was healed did not know who He, for Jesus hid himself among the people that were in that place. 14 Then Jesus met him in the temple and said to him: Behold, you have recovered; sin no more, lest something worse happen to you. 15 This man went and announced to the Jews that he who healed him was Jesus.16 And the Jews began to persecute Jesus and sought to kill Him because He did such things on the Sabbath.”
It would seem that Jesus and the Jews are opposed here. But this is only at first glance. Jesus in this scene appears before us as undoubtedly a holy miracle worker, performing miracles … “in the name of Yahweh and by his name.” This follows from the first phrase addressed by Jesus to the Jews persecuting Him: “17 But Jesus said to them: My Father still does, and I do” – this is the real key to the meaning of this scene: the Father in this instance is Yahweh, who heals by the descent into the water of an angel, and Jesus also heals, and even on Saturday, because he is equal to God in his right to dispose of the Law at his own discretion, and both of them, the Yahweh Father and Jesus the Son, are equally kind and merciful to people. Mercy motivates both of them in relation to people and sometimes forces Jesus to break formalities in the name of fulfilling the true, inner meaning, the spiritual law, its core, essential part, the basis of which is the love and mercy of Jehovah to the chosen ones. – yeah, right. We know about Jehovah and his love for the folk he enslaved by the proverb: “The wolf took pity on the mare – he left his tail and mane.”
The thing is that the gospel was… intended for Christians, not for Jews, and it should have looked decent to them according to their faith in the Son of God – but then at least in the son of the Jewish Jehovah (who for the Jews cannot have any children or relatives in general, but for Christians it will do), this was the meaning of all these editors. And the fact that He violated the Sabbath is not so important, the Jews later explained it to Christians by his stricter observance of the Law, not by the letter of a formality, but by the Spirit of Jehovah’s love and mercy to his chosen ones. And of course, the necessary quotations from the Jewish Law were immediately found and were cited by the interpreters. “He said to them: “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and was hungry for himself and those with him? How he entered the house of God under the high priest Abiathar and ate the offering bread, which was not supposed to be eaten by anyone but the priests, and gave it to those with him? “And he said, “Saturday is for a man, not a man for the Sabbath. Therefore, the son of man is the lord of the sabbaths as well. “Mark 2: 23—28. It would be foolish to directly deny the Son-godhood of Jesus when addressing Christians – and having received the gospel of John, the Jewish editors “added their tar (lies) to the Christian honey” so that it was not noticeable at first glance, to a possible extent mixing in Judaism to the Gospel of John as the defining religion for Jesus. “I am the master of the Sabbath, I am the true Law” – this is what the Jewish Christians read in these lines. Jesus is shown here as… Yahweh himself.
Now let’s take a look at this scene through the eyes of an eyewitness. Overcrowding, dirt, stench – sick people rot for years in this pool by the water in the hope of healing, and there are thousands of them. Jesus came – and immediately the first question: He is the Son of God, merciful and compassionate – so WHY did He not take and heal ALL at once? That would be a great and socially significant miracle – and an act of divine mercy. Why was it necessary to look for some chosen one, no matter how good he was in himself. What, out of thousands of sufferers, only one was worthy of a divine visit?
Well, let’s say he healed. The one who had been lying paralyzed for almost forty years suddenly got up and went. – And then what? Yes, the fact that an unimaginable hubbub would have risen, and not just a hubbub, there would have begun a form of pandemonium, people, the whole thousand-strong crowd would have rushed to Jesus and would have
