April 29 AD

These summaries are a mere taste of Maria Valtorta’s The Poem of the Man-God.  Please find and read the original which can be found second-hand on web sites.

The Poem has been republished as The Gospel as Revealed to Me.

April in 29 AD

Jesus and the apostles moved south to Masada and from there further south to Iscariot to stay with Judas’s mother.  By now the apostles knew Jesus was to die.  They did not know he had only 12 more months to complete his mission.

Tuesday, April 3, 29 AD. Valtorta 3.380. Jesus is radiant with happiness when he comes down from the week-long retreat. The crowd is in awe of him except for a group of pharisees and a group of Essennes.

He preaches about man’s freedom and how it is used and misused.  He tells how the rich can be saved.  He talks of the Communion of Saints, saying no one who has been unjust and unfaithful can enter it.

An Essene heckles him with a question about free will and fate.  Jesus points out that God is always just and that sins can be forgiven but God leaves his children free to choose between good and evil.

A scribe blames God for evil and tempting men beyond their ability to resist temptation.

Jesus counters men must merit by choosing good. Another heckler asks why souls in heaven need a resurrected body. Jesus says those in heaven are there because they lived in a body and it is only fair that they be reunited.

After the crowd disperses and Jesus and his group head for Jericho an Essene ask Jesus to give him a new name and role.  Jesus calsl him Elijah sends him for a year- long retreat on the mountain where he and the apostles spent a week.

Valtorta 3.381. Near Jericho, they are welcomed to a house owned by a lady called Nike (1) who promises to look after the newly named hermit Elijah. She discerns that Jesus will die and is given the most wonderful promise of eternal glory.

Wednesday, April 4, 29 AD. Valtorta 3.382. Before they cross the Jordan they arrive at a camp of pilgrims, a big chaotic camp complete with soldiers,  prostitutes and thieves.

One of the prostitutes offers herself to Jesus without charge but is assaulted by Peter for her impudence which attracts admonition from Jesus ‘Peter you do not attack or punish a dirty garment, you wash it let’s pray to clean her soul and her body.

He then walks north along the river for a few hours to a house Jesus had been offered for his use.

A crowd forms to meet him and he discusses death.  For a person after the age of discretion, life is a preparation for a peaceful death and death is a preparation for a greater life,

A wise man understands the truth about living and dying. He is also vaguely aware of how much time he has left to live. He is glad to rest in God saying I love you for ever.

He expresses astonishment that people weep for the dead and not for the living dead.

They then proceeded to the tumbledown house they had been gifted. It was hard work to make it habitable.  Thomas almost carried an elderly blind man called Ananias whose daughter-in-law had abandoned him to return to Masada on the death of her husband.  This would prompt his visit to Masada later. But first, he would evangelise the neighbourhood.

Thursday, April 5, 29 AD. Valtorta 3.383 Jesus stood at a cross roads from dawn till noon to be available to the pilgrims returning from Jerusalem.   He talks about everyone facing a perpetual cross roads where we have to choose for better or worse and tells a parable about choices.

He mentions purgatory where those who were neither good nor bad expediate their tepidity.  He then cures a number of people.

April 6 – 10 Jesus spent these days preaching at the cross roads.

April 11, 29 AD.  Valtorta 3.386. Old Ananias asks Jesus to talk to his daughter in law and gave him a message for her should he be in her village. Jesus and apostles head south for Masada.

Jesus stops in Gilgal to eat, meets a beggar whose terrible confession he hears. Jesus tells him that sins must be expiated. He denounces mental reservations as mean expedients hated by the Most-High.

Jesus is mocked and derided by a group of scribes. Jesus leaves the town and weeps bitterly for the hardness of Israel.

They rested in a cave.

Thursday, April 12, 29 AD.  Leaving at dawn for the wide Kidron Valley, south East of Jerusalem by noon.  After resting they headed south.  Simon Zealot led them through difficult terrain which he knew from his days as a persecuted leper.

Jesus confirms that the area was nice beautiful and fertile and towns and villages lie buried beneath it.

They pass some caves from which Simon Zealot takes out enough honey to feed them all.  They find a reservoir and bath in it.

They reach the Kidron Valley.  Jesus gives a heart-rending talk to Judas before sending him to Bethany by way of Jerusalem.

Friday, April 13, 29AD. Valtorta 3.388. After a long and fast walk they arrived at En-gedi which is situated in a stunning setting. Valtorta comments on its cleanliness compared to other Palestinian towns and Jerusalem itself.

Saturday, April 14, 29 AD. Valtorta 3.389.  They stayed in En-gedi.  They meet the head of the synagogue who remembered meeting the three wise men on their flight from Herod in 4 BC.

Jesus talks about faith first preached by Adam and from then down the generations. Who has faith possesses the way of Life, he said.

As the crowd disperses an elderly woman approaches Jesus blessing his mother, it is the previously blind wife of the old synagogue leader who exclaims with a beautiful canticle of praise.

Sunday, April 15, 29 AD.  Valtorta 3.390.  Before dawn they headed southeast but they are joined by the synagogue leader who leads them to a crevice in the mountain where his lepper son, Elisha, is concealed.  The son reluctantly appears as an almost skeleton. Jesus touches him and he is fully restored in both body and health.

After a difficult climb, they entered Masada. It appears that the only reason for this trip to the town the apostles thought to be impregnable was to see the daughter-in-law of Ananias (see April 11, 29 AD) who at first refused to see him and when, eventually, she did she told him to go away and with the help of the town’s elders ordered him out of the fortress town.

Later Jesus foretold its fate as it was no better than Sodom and Gomorrah. That evening they set out for a nine-hour journey to Kerioth to stay with Judas’ mother.

Monday, April 16, 29 AD.  Valtorta 3.392. Arrived at Kerioth but go on to Judas’ mother’s substantial country house.  Judas’ mother is alarmed when she does not see her son with the apostles.  Jesus tells her that he had sent Judas and Simon Zealot to Bethany and that they are coming to her.

Judas and Simon arrive in the evening when the pilgrims are resting after dining. Judas explains that he went to the Antonia Fortress in Jerusalem to talk to Claudia whom he described as the real proconsul. Judas says Pilate owes his position on account of her power.  He thinks she will bring Pilate to Jesus’ side in the struggle for wills.

April`17 – 21, 29 . Jesus stayed in Kerioth.

Sunday, April 22, 29 AD. Valtorta 3.393.  That evening Jesus speaks in the synagogue about the importance attached to goodwill. To illustrate it he tells a parable about two sons who received identical formation from a wise father.  One is weak and obedient and the other overbearing and needing to dominate.

He describes success as peace being a victory on earth and in heaven as God is with those willing to obey him.  God is not with the man who wishes to act by himself.

Jesus recounts costly disobedience from the history of Israel.

God chooses who he wants and deprives those who forfeit his favour by depriving his will by disobedience.

In a touching farewell to Iscriot Jesus prays that the people look each other in the eye, love each other and love those who are burdened with fault that is not theirs.

He does not intend to return to Kerioth.

That evening he is alone with Judas’ mother who takes him to meet a woman, Anne, who was to be Judas’ mother-in-law.  Her daughter died of a broken heart after Judas jilted her.  Jesus tells of his own mother’s grief.

There follows the most detailed statement by Jesus about his death and naming Judas as the deicide.  He asks this lady, an ill bed-ridden-  woman to love and comfort Judas’ mother so she will at least have one friend. He cures her.

He extracts a promise of love for Judas’ mother and absolves her curses and extracts a promise of silence about what he had said about Judas’ fate.

He said Judas thought he was going to be a minister in his kingdom but instead Jesus would be crucified and both he and Judas dead.

Before resuming his journey Jesus promises Judas’ mother a place among the martyrs and co-redeemers.

.In the evening they went north for Yutah.

Monday, April 23, 29 AD. Valtorta 3.395.  They arrived in the morning and speaks to the people of Yuttah.  He stresses the importance of the Decalogue which is perfected by his doctrine of Love.

The habitation of God in men is based on obedience to the Ten Commandments. He prays for his audience to become arks of the true bread of heaven.  God is not to be found in the hard-hearted but he is in those who obey the commandments, who repent and desire forgiveness.

Jesus gives a passionate and emotional blessing to the people whom he leaves for the last time that afternoon.

Tuesday, April 24, 29. Valtorta 3.396. They arrived in Hebron that morning and visited the abandoned house of Zachery and Elizabeth’s. He praised Aglae, the sinful woman who occupied it on his last visit.

He holds her up as an example to the amazed crowd who had no idea about her conversion to Jesus’ doctrine.  Some had thought she had gone to Jesus as to a lover.

Jesus talks of persecutions but Judas is enthralled foreseeing Jesus as King Jesus on a throne, processions of camels coming from everywhere Israel being as great as Rome. Judas wishes his father was alive to see it.

They left Hebron in the afternoon.  They eat some bitter fruit from the wayside. Ruefully the apostles comment they could have eaten well in the town. Jesus comments when I am hungry and thirsty when I am raised up I will long for this hour.

Judas comments that King Jesus will have everything.  But when Bartholomew queries Jesus, he is told the most bitter fruit would be as sweet as honey compared to his accession.

Wednesday, April 25, 29 AD.  Valtorta 3.397. In Beth-Tsur.  Jesus talks passionately urging them to remain faithful to him in the face of persecution. He calls them his people, his witnesses.

Jesus’ talks of persecution and heaven provokes different reactions. Someone asks about his future to which Judas shouts ‘Glory,’ but his mother’s old teacher, Eliza, says beneath her breath, ‘death.’

He visits  Eliza whom he cured of depression on his last visit.

Thursday, April 26, 29 AD. Valtorta 3.398. Jesus, Simon Zealot and Eliza and two companions arrive in Beth-Er to call on Johanna, Khuza’s wife in the late afternoon.  Johanna’s castle and estate is a perfumery with acres of roses.

Johanna’s husband has told her to part from Jesus as he thinks it jeopardises his position in Herod’s court. She is relieved when Jesus tells her he has no desire to sit on Herod’s throne, nor Ceasar’s either.

Johanna tells Jesus that Judas has upset and misled the Roman ladies, especially Claudia, with his understanding of Jesus’ kingdom.

Jesus said Judas has been misled by his human love and that he will personally reassure Khuza that his kingdom is purely spiritual.

Friday, April 27, 29 AD. Valtorta 3.399. Editor’s note:  Two rare occurrences in this chapter – Maria Valtorta lapses into a personal expression of her love for Jesus and another example of Aulagnier’s dating differing from Valtorta. He places this vision in April, she places it in May.

The apostles arrive late afternoon, preceded by Peter who is furious with Judas upsetting everyone.  Jesus tells them to stop judging Judas and pray hard for him.

 Saturday, April 28. Valtorta 3.400. As the sun is setting Jesus puts Khuza at ease and in doing so Judas realises that his conversations with Claudia are known. 

Jesus then addresses the servants and villagers. He praises the disciples and shepherds who had evangelised them.  He likens their district to paradise and warns them of the danger of allowing Satan to stay in the areathath he will try to enter. 

Jesus warns against bartering the promises of God for human honours and power. He asks are human initiatives better than those of God? God alone alots positions to his children.

Jesus final word is that no one should be afraid of him, he is mercy.

Valtorta 3.401.  Apostles leave at sundown. Judas trails the group and when asked if he is sick uses foul language. Peter hears and is furious and dives into a wood and fiercly breaks sticks each one of which seems to represent what he would do to Judas. Jesus later tells him that sacrifices and prayer never lack success. They spend the night in a cave.

Sunday, April 29, 29 AD. Valtorta 3.402. At dawn Jesus emerges from the cave, washes in a stream, climbs to higher ground and prays earnestly. He hears the apostles and mutters, ‘Father, comfort me.’

Judas is surprised and queries that Jesus is not going to Jerusalem but is instead going to Emmaus on the Plain, six miles east of Jerusalem and from there to Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea to keep a promise – I always keep my promises. Judas counsels against this for fear of enemies. Jesus says his enemies are always close to me looking at him.

AS they enter on to a fertile plain Judas starts an argument to the effect that Judeans are better than Galileans.  They run into some of their disciples making their way to Jerusalem who tell of persecutions of some other disciples. Jesus calmly says this will happen over and over again.  He says the purple of the innocent erase traces of Evil.

They rest in a farm yard where a delightful scene of a child with Jesus is described.

Valtorta 3.403. In the afternoon Jesus gives a remarkable account of life’s battles that can only be won by God.  Fight against doubt which chokes the breath of your souls.

To have God as an Ally you must have an upright soul and humility, Only a fool judges.

Reply to critics with the words with prophets and the miracles you have seen me work. Fight against persecution but not against your persecutors, fears, unworthy compromises, utilitarian alliances, pressure, torture, and death.

He goes on to describe his forgiveness for everybody, little and big enemies. He lists them: inert, indifferent and changeable. Big: those who grieve him, apathetic to his power and desire to save them and deicides. He says he will not be able to forgive unrepentant deicides

At dusk they set off for Joppa on the coast.

Monday, April 30, 29 AD.  Valtorta 3.404. At Joppa Jesus had a private talk with Judas in which he pleaded with Judas to accept that Jesus’ kingdom was spiritual, that what he wanted was a human kingdom. There is no fault that I cannot forgive if only I am asked. He told judas to come to him where only the flowers and birds are witnesses and are horrified by a man the Cain of his brother.

Later Jesus discusses the human soul with a group of Gentiles who wanted to know what Jesus thought of Socrates’ statement that death is nothing but the liberation of the soul to a free place.  Jesus is adamant that souls are immortal.

1. Veronika whom Jesus always called Nike. Jesus quite frequently changed people’s names and gave nicknames.