I am very sorry that yesterday I had to interrupt our contact, but I felt that
it would not give good results. Our rapport was not good.
Yes, I know that you saw the woman (Note 1) and that the vision appeared to be
pretty clear, however, the conditions for message transmission did not satisfy
me.
I will try again.
I want to communicate once again a little bit on the circumstances that prompted
me to commit the treason, which would lead to Jesus’ violent death.
The woman you saw was Miriam, the wife of Simon the Leper. I call him so,
because this is the name under which he appears in the Bible. You know already
that Simon actually was never a leper, he had never suffered from this disease,
hence, Jesus never cured him from this disease. Simon was a wealthy man who
lived in Bethany.
You also know that Bethany was "Jesus' town" in Judea. During all his visits to
Jerusalem, the Master stayed in this town, that is, in the home of his great
friend Lazarus. On this occasion, however, Jesus would return from Jerusalem,
where he was on one of his daily excursions, to Simon’s home, in order to attend
a formal dinner to which his friend had invited him.
Simon was a very good man. Worried about the Master's safety and the tensions
between the ruling class of Jerusalem and Jesus, he had arranged a dinner where
several members of the Sanhedrin would attend, giving them the opportunity to
become acquainted with the Master, to exchange opinions, and thus to reduce the
existing tensions. Simon reasoned that many of Jesus' enemies actually did not
know him, and that a dialogue between the parties could improve the situation.
Finally, a short time before night fall, Jesus returned with us from Jerusalem.
We entered Simon’s home, where the owner of the house was already talking with
his other guests. Simon welcomed us and asked us to move to the long table,
where rich hors d'oeuvres were already awaiting us. He took Jesus by his arm and
guided him to the place of honor, asking him to lie down there. When the members
of the Sanhedrin saw this, they exchanged glances and frowned in disapproval. Of
course, they thought that the place of honor should be theirs, being great
masters of the Law and men of fame in Jerusalem. But they said nothing.
The women who accompanied Jesus did not approach the table. They used to eat
with the men at the same table, but that was a freedom that Jesus tolerated with
much pleasure, but which was disapproved of by the great majority of the Jewish
people. In order to not offend the other guests, Pharisee traditionalists, they
had agreed not to take part in the dinner.
According to tradition, servants approached with towels and bowls of water to
wash the hands and feet of the diners, but in Jesus’ case, it was not a servant
but the mistress of the house, Miriam, who took care of this task, which in turn
once again provoked the silent disapproval of the Pharisees.
Miriam, or Mary, Simon’s wife, however, had prepared another surprise. It was
she whom you saw grinding things in the mortar — not spices, but fragrant resins
and aromatic herbs, which she mixed with olive oil. We used to anoint our hair
with olive oil, and she, in her great appreciation of the Master, had created a
rich perfume from fresh ingredients, to honor Jesus in a special way.
This was the drop which made the glass spill over.
“Is this the reason why you have invited us, to humiliate us in front of the
Galilean?” the Pharisees complained to Simon. Simon blushed, unable to utter a
word. The disciples also raised their voices, reproaching Miriam's attitude. All
the disciples, my dear friend, not only I. Only Jesus found words of comfort for
Miriam, and he spoke in her defense. But it was too late. The atmosphere was
already poisoned. We ate the dinner almost in silence that was hardly
interrupted by a few exchanges of pungent words. When the meal was finished, the
Pharisees got up, bowed their heads slightly to Simon and left without saying
goodbye or thank you.
You can imagine how— after the exit of the guests from the Sanhedrin — all of us
attacked the poor woman, burying her under a heap of reproaches. Jesus tried to
defend her and to soothe Simon’s anger, but the poor woman left running, with
tears in her eyes.
Simon’s good intention — and of course, his wife’s gesture of love — ended in a
catastrophe. Jesus' opponents, whose hard-line stance should have been softened
by this invitation, had interpreted it as an act of open provocation.
You know this story. The New Testament gives different accounts of the same. I
want you to paste here Matthew’s version: Back in Bethany, while Jesus was in
the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster flask of
most expensive perfume, and poured it on his head as he was at table.
The disciples were indignant when they saw this, and said, "What is the point of
such wicked waste? Couldn’t this perfume have been sold for a lot of money which
could be given to the poor?"
Jesus knew what they were saying and spoke to them, "Why must you make this
woman feel uncomfortable? She has done a beautiful thing for me. You have the
poor with you always, but you will not always have me. When she poured this
perfume on my body, she was preparing it for my burial. I assure you that
wherever the gospel is preached throughout the whole world, what she has done
will also be told, as her memorial to me."
After this, one of the twelve, Judas Iscariot by name, approached the chief
priests.
"What will you give me," he said to them, "if I hand him over to you?" They
settled with him for thirty silver coins, and from then on he looked for a
convenient opportunity to betray Jesus.
Matthew 26:6-16
Mark paints the scene in very similar words. “A woman came,” they say. They do
not mention who she was.
Now, write here John’s story: Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to
Bethany, the village of Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead. They gave a
supper for him there, and Martha waited on the party while Lazarus took his
place at table with Jesus.
Then Mary took a whole pound of very expensive perfume, pure nard, and anointed
Jesus’ feet and then wiped them with her hair. The entire house was filled with
the fragrance of the perfume.
But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (the man who was going to betray
Jesus), burst out, "Why on earth wasn’t this perfume sold? It’s worth thirty
pounds, which could have been given to the poor!"
John 12:1-5
John confirms that the woman was Mary, Lazarus’ sister. Elsewhere in his gospel,
he repeats this affirmation. (Note 2)
In Luke, a very similar story appears. Without defining exactly where this event
took place, he writes: Then one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to a meal with him.
When Jesus came into the house, he took his place at the table and a woman,
known in the town as a bad character, found out that Jesus was there and brought
an alabaster flask of perfume and stood behind him crying, letting her tears
fall on his feet and then drying them with her hair. Then she kissed them and
anointed them with the perfume.
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man
were really a prophet, he would know who this woman is and what sort of a person
is touching him. He would have realized that she is a bad woman."
Luke 7:36-39
Luke does not reveal the name of the woman; hence, she has been identified with
different people. The German seeress Emmerich gives the following account:
4.1.2.a. Magdalen repeats her anointing of Jesus
Full of trouble, Jesus went back with the Apostles to Bethania for the Sabbath.
While He was teaching in the Temple, the Jews had been ordered to keep their
houses closed, and it was forbidden to offer Him or His disciples any
refreshment. On reaching Bethania, they went to the public house of Simon, the
healed leper, where a meal awaited them. Magdalen, filled with compassion for
Jesus fatiguing exertions, met the Lord at the door. She was habited in a
penitential robe and girdle, her flowing hair concealed by a black veil. She
cast herself at His feet and with her hair wiped from them the dust, just as one
would clean the shoes of another. She did it openly before all, and many were
scandalized at her conduct.
After Jesus and the disciples had prepared themselves for the Sabbath, that is,
put on the garments prescribed and prayed under the lamp, they stretched
themselves at table for the meal. Toward the end of it, Magdalen, urged by love,
gratitude, contrition, and anxiety, again made her appearance. She went behind
the Lords couch, broke a little flask of precious balm over His head and poured
some of it upon His feet, which she again wiped with her hair. That done, she
left the dining hall. Several of those present were scandalized, especially
Judas, who excited Matthew, Thomas, and John Mark to displeasure. But Jesus
excused her, on account of the love she bore Him. She often anointed Him in this
way. Many of the facts mentioned only once in the Gospels happened frequently.
(Anne Catherline Emmerich: The Life of our Lord Jesus Christ, Book 4)
So, here it was Mary Magdalene who honored Jesus in this peculiar way, provoking
a scandal. To do justice to the illiterate medium, I must tell you that it was
the poet Clemens Brentano, who composed the books of the nun’s visions, taking
the sick woman’s expressions as a rough guideline for his own version of the
events.
In the Book of Urantia, there is a version which follows more or less the gospel
according to John:
172:1.4 The banquet went along in a very cheerful and normal manner except that
all the apostles were unusually sober. Jesus was exceptionally cheerful and had
been playing with the children up to the time of coming to the table.
172:1.5 Nothing out of the ordinary happened until near the close of the
feasting when Mary the sister of Lazarus stepped forward from among the group of
women onlookers and, going up to where Jesus reclined as the guest of honor,
proceeded to open a large alabaster cruse of very rare and costly ointment; and
after anointing the Master's head, she began to pour it upon his feet as she
took down her hair and wiped them with it. The whole house became filled with
the odor of the ointment, and everybody present was amazed at what Mary had
done. Lazarus said nothing, but when some of the people murmured, showing
indignation that so costly an ointment should be thus used, Judas Iscariot
stepped over to where Andrew reclined and said: "Why was this ointment not sold
and the money bestowed to feed the poor? You should speak to the Master that he
rebuke such waste."
(The Urantia Book)
You could read hundreds of channelings on this event, and you would find the
most different of versions. But almost all of them have something in common: The
“squandering” of the perfume would provoke my wrath, prompting me to head for
Jerusalem in order to finish the “deal” of my treason. This is wrong. I did not
betray Jesus because somebody had wasted money (it was not even Jesus who did
this). I did not betray him because he had reproached us. This was not the first
time he did so. The reasons for my treason are clear, and I have explained them
in the past. (Note 3)
In concluding this message I want to repeat once again that did not commit this
crime because God had commanded me to do so. This is nonsense. It was my
personal decision.
“May Your kingdom come, and Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven”. So
we prayed, yes, “ mayYour will be done”, but what I did was “my will.”
I am content with the way you received this message. I wish you a happy day, and
may God bless you always.
Judas
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Note. The background to this message is that a medium, not directly associated
with our circle, apparently received a message from Judas. This message was not
recorded, but the essence of it was that Judas had been chosen by God to betray
Jesus, that Judas knew this, and chose to do Father's will. We found this
inconceivable, that Father would ever put one of his beloved creations in the
situation that Judas ended up in - leading to Jesus's death, and being
thoroughly despised by billions of Christians.
Note 1 I saw a women of approximately 50 years of age. A sky-blue handkerchief
covered her hair. The woman was grinding something in a stone mortar. I supposed
that she was milling spices in order to prepare a meal.
Note 2 Now there was a man by the name of Lazarus who became seriously ill. He
lived in Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived. (Lazarus
was the brother of the Mary who poured perfume upon the Lord and wiped his feet
with her hair.)
John 11:1-2
Note 3 Why Judas betrayed Jesus (Vol. II);
Judas' experience of the hells
(September 6th, 2001; H.R.)
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