(Received from the Lord through
Jakob Lorber, on March 18, 1864)
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2) "Since this Matthew was an excellent penman and did not want to leave Me, he was accepted by Me as a scribe to relate only the facts, whilst My John had to record the Word, that is, what I taught. Sometimes Matthew wrote down for himself more spiritual parts of My sermons and then asked John to correct them; Matthew had a good memory for physical things, but a weak one for My spiritual teachings.
3) "As long as he traveled with Me, he knew only little of My family relationships, and what he did know was told to him on occasion by James, Simon and John; yet he did not write it down on the spot, but only few years after My resurrection; when he was elected an apostle in Judas Iscariot's place. Having composed his gospel correctly, Matthew, the apostle-evangelist, took it along on his journey to the south-easterly regions of Asia.
4) Thereafter, five different gospel-writers appeared, named Matthew, in Jerusalem, Galilee, Samaria, Tyre and Sidon. The one in Sidon undisputedly was the most acceptable of the five. At the great church-council of Nicaea, the other four were declared apocryphical and rejected, since they differed very much...even among each other. The one offside was considered as possibly genuine, though also this is, in part, apocryphical in spite of the fact that the writer took all possible pains to represent the report as accurately as possible.
5) "In reality he wrote fourteen gospels, not just one, always in accordance with what pretending eye-witnesses ad disclosed to him. On the basis of these fourteen, he wrote a fifteenth, which, according tithe judgment of many experts, was the truest and most important one. This pseudo-Matthew, whose real name was L'Rabbas, is the author of our present gospel of Matthew. The original genuine one can still be found in great collection of books and manuscripts of every kind, in an important city of the far north-eastern mountains of India, which is perhaps the largest and richest on earth since the library of Alexandria burned down. It consists of several million books and manuscripts, which are unfortunately - not accessible to anyone but the high priests, who are under the authority of the uppermost one of Brahma. Only the Burmese have a genuine but greatly shortened copy.
6) "You would also like to know what became of the Apostle Matthew in those countries of India. He had been supported there quite well, but was not permitted to extend his teachings to others outside of the priesthood. In his old age, guided by My Spirit, he found an opportunity to escape into Burma, where he taught the Burmese all wisdom. For them he wrote the aforementioned, brief gospel. In some of the better traditions, Matthew is still called 'the Apostle of India.'
7) "From this information you can now easily understand the nature of our biblical gospel of Matthew. Likewise, you will better comprehend what is said in the 13th chapter, where it reads in verses 55-56: 'Is not this the son of the carpenter Joseph? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joses, Simon, Jude and John? And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all his wisdom?' To appreciate this correctly, one must know what is mentioned in the gospel of John, namely, that I once came to Nazareth and taught there in the synagogue, working many signs. Whenever my disciples and apostles began to criticize Me, I said: 'No prophet is to rise from Galilee', or in other words, a prophet is nowhere less appreciated than in his father-land. Then I left Nazareth, never to return.
8) "As regards My so-called 'brothers and sisters', they were Joseph's children from his first marriage, not the children of Mary, whose only child I was. The 'sisters' were not even daughters of Joseph’s, but his poor relatives; they were called thus because they lived according to the will of both Joseph and Mary. Three of these brothers traveled with Me, namely, James, Simon and John. Two stayed home to continue Joseph's business, and cared for Mary until I gave her over to John's care.
9) You will find the same seeming contradictions in the Gospel of Luke. This evangelist wrote also the Acts, 50 years after Me. His gospel is a compendium of what he found out through an eager investigation about Me and the apostles. He sent all his writings to Theophilus in Athens, who then wrote a gospel from Luke's gospel, enriching it withal number of additions, thereby injecting into it a number of incorrectness’s, especially in a literal sense, out of which then grew all kinds of contradictions, as for instance with reference to My highly tyrannical function in the so-called 'last judgment', which is not at all in agreement with the only still most correct, brief gospel of John; yet, spiritually it admits an illumination, about which, together with other things, we shall learn in the next Word. Let this suffice for today. Amen.