“48 Jesus said to him: you will not believe if you do not see signs and wonders” – Jesus does not need this glory of a magician, He did not come for this, does not preach miracles – but, seeing genuine grief, he cannot refuse. Well, he grumbled…
“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”– the journey from Cana to Capernaum is not a short distance, 40 kilometers, even on a horse on a bright day you can’t turn around – that’s why “the next day”.
AND! Finally! You can’t hide an awl in a sack, and the truth about the falsification of the previous two chapters of the Gospel text comes out into the light of God in all its ugliness.
“54 This is the second miracle Jesus performed when he returned from Judea to Galilee” – so, wait a minute, but what was the first? That is, either he performed a second miracle in his life right now, having returned to Galilee – but then what about the miracles performed in Jerusalem, which were mentioned so many times above; or did he perform a second miracle on his return from Galilee – but then why do we learn about the second, not knowing about the first, what is the first? Why wasn’t it mentioned? Because of the INSERT – two and a half chapters in the text, which tells only about the stay in Cana and two miracles in it: the first at the wedding, the second – the remote healing of the child. And we will have to admit that this miracle is overall the second, and not the second upon arrival in Galilee. But how can this be? But what about the great miracles in Jerusalem, which even dispelled all the skepticism of Jesus’ fellow countrymen? By what count are they between the two? Well, by no count – there was none: no miracles, no sudden travel to Jerusalem for Easter, no life in Judea with baptism of those who come, no return to Galilee, no meeting with a Samaritan woman – nothing! Everything is LIE! Lies for propaganda purposes and nothing more.
It should be recalled that the Galileans, from the point of view of the Jews, are terry pagans, communication with them is defiled, and for this a special sacrifice was required in the temple. The Galileans were recognized by a special dialect, and in this regard, all the stories about Jesus’ campaigns in Jerusalem on Jewish holidays look especially funny, because Jesus was not a Jew by faith in the slightest degree.
Let’s summarize. The dry residue washed by us looks pretty modest:
– Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples
– the 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,