Preface

This is a summary of a five-volume account of the public life of Christ as recounted by the Italian mystic Maria Valtorta in the Poem of the Man God. It tells of the almost daily activities of Jesus in the years from December 27 AD through to the Resurrection in 30 AD.

I have drawn on the dating of the recounted episodes by a French specialist in dating events called Jean Aulagnier.

The purpose of this work is to encourage people to read Valtorta’s work. This is not a commercial exercise.    It is best read in conjunction with the gospels. As it is private revelation it is not to be read as gospel, but as Maria Valtorta’s account, in this instance, of events in the life of Jesus in the year 29 AD.

I believe this back story to the Gospels places them in context and it has certainly made the gospels more real to me and hopefully to others.

I started this work four years ago and in that time my treatment of Valtorta’s changed from emphasising the physical effort Jesus put into his mission to his teachings, comments and observations.

What follows is an account of Jesus’ activities in 29 AD. This will be followed by his final months in 30 AD and later by those from the beginning of the Public Life in December 26 AD..

Jeremy Hennessy 2024

The year 29 AD is an attempt to summarise the writings of Maria Valtorta about Jesus’ third year of public life.  What started as an attempt to indicate the actual physical effort Jesus put into his mission gradually changed to widen the context of the gospel accounts.  The dating is the work of Professor Jean Aulagnier in The Diary of Jesus (ISBN 2-920285-10-6).

This summary will never be a substitute for reading the original text and serves only as a tasting menu for the original works – The Poem of the Man – God (Centro Editoriale Valtortiano sri) which has been republished as The Gospel as Revealed to Me.

January AD 29

Jesus spends most of this month in north west Palestine and Siro Phoenicia.   Jesus is at pains to persuade people that God is Father to all people.  The Phoenicians, like those in Transjordan, resent the contempt of the Jews, their disdain for mixed race and mixed marriage.  He ends the month back in his native Nazareth.  He walked at least 120 miles from place to place and goodness knows how many additional miles he did in the districts he stayed in for a few days

Monday, January 15, 29 AD. Valtorta Vol 3.327. Jesus is at Alexandroscene, a Roman garrison town on the northwest coast. They are welcomed by a major store owner who quizzes Jesus on his work. Jesus says he is a teacher of love. He says he loves the poor but does not despise the rich.  He drops Lazarus’ name which links the store owner’s sister to Lazarus’ steward Philip’s daughter-in-law in Antioch. Peter had met her when he was in Antioch last month, December 28 AD. He was able to pass on news of the store owner’s sister and her children.

The store owner realises Jesus is the one said to be the Messiah. He asks are you the Word of God. Jesus says yes.

Tuesday, January 16, 29 AD.  Valtorta 328. Valtorta paints a fantastic picture of an eastern market place, chaos, colour and noise. We hear soldiers wondering why Pontius Pilot does not afford Jesus protection from his enemies who continually denounce him as a threat to Rome.

Jesus addresses the crowd stresses that the time of grace has come for everybody. He says it is wise to keep the Ten Commandments, Wisdom is to love God and all our neighbours.  He cures a few people.

Someone heckles him suggesting it is too late for them, Jesus replies with the parable of the 11^th hour. (Mt 20). After which arguments abound about its meaning. When things look likely to get out of hand, the centurion orders the place cleared and has Jesus and his group expelled from the town.

Wednesday, January 17, 29 AD.  Valtorta 3.329. James is called a son of thunder by Jesus because he was threatening to give Jesus’ critics a good thrashing. Jesus gives the apostles a dressing down.  Even John had turned from dove to hawk and he, too, is given the son of thunder nickname. Again, Jesus cures a few people and even a flock of sheep without going near them.

Thursday, January 18, 29 AD

 They went back to Akhzif and went on to a village between Qedesh and Akhzif where they stayed overnight with a shepherd whose family can accommodate all of them. Jesus puts them at ease by playing with the children.

Friday, January 19, 29 AD.  Valtorta 3.330. Jesus rose and prayed before dawn. The Canaanite woman accosts him. Mt15.. 

The apostles are appalled at the treatment of this woman. Jesus just ignored her and kept walking away from her.  He never did that before the Apostles said, completely puzzled, even ashamed of him.  They stop and implore him to cure or dismiss her.  

When Jesus stops, she catches his ankles and won’t let go.  His face lights up with pleasure and after the banter-filled conversation, Jesus grants her request. 

Pressed by the apostles Jesus praises her faith and said he acted that way to show the importance of perseverance even when God does not seem to be answering prayers.

In the afternoon he cured the child of a woman who had stayed for days at a cross roads hoping to see him. Jesus says God loves her because she is a good mother.

Later towards evening he rests at a forge owned by a Roman who asks Jesus to meet his wife. Her request was simple and faith filled. She wanted her husband to find the true God.  Jesus praises her faith.  He later complains to James of Zebedee that he and the others are ruled by their human nature instead of their spirits.

He said when the spirit is sovereign it is not affected by every breath of wind, I always pray that you may reach sovereignty of spirit. They arrived in Akhzif.  

Saturday, January 20, 29 AD.  Valtorta 3.331. They spent the Sabbath in Akhzif where he is joined by Bartholomew and Philip who are distressed because they thought Jesus had sent them away because he did not trust them. Jesus explains that every man has his mission, and every age has its work.

They discuss the weather which has ruined crops.

Monday, January 22,29 AD. Valtorta 3.332. Jesus goes back to the goatherd he had visited near Qedish.  The apostles ask Jesus about the destruction caused by the weather.  They see it as Divine punishment. Jesus says it is not but was caused by weather elsewhere and lunar events.

Tuesday, January 23, 29 AD. Valtorta Vol 3.331.  Jesus and group walked along the coast heading south for Sycaminum. They refreshed themselves at Ptolemais.  Peter wonders why the Jews were so anxious to get John of Endor as there are many escaped slaves that they protect. Jesus explains the John of Endor (Note 1 below) was to be used as a witness of Jesus’ ‘rebellion’ against the existing order.

Wednesday, January 24, 29 AD.  Vol 3.333.  Near Tsippori,  the apostles discuss Jesus’ depression when they returned from Antioch. They talk of defending him in case of him being taken by force.

Then Jesus talks of judgment.  The first, he said, is made on earth by men freely choosing or not to follow his doctrine.  Then individually at death and finally at the end of time when the whole of mankind will be separated. 

The apostles quiz John of Zebedee saying that Jesus tells him more than they. John says this is because he asks more questions while they are afraid to.

The group met Judas and Thomas whom Jesus had sent to evangelise in Judea.

Judas is obsessed with the idea of a political Messiah.  Judas reports he had visited the most important people including Annas and Caiaphas to assess their attitude to Jesus, 

Judas said he had been dressed down by the High Priests but he thought he had changed their minds about Jesus.

He also told Jesus that he had checked everywhere he thought John of Endor might be but could not find him.

Judas brought Jesus an invitation to dine with Ishmael, a very powerful Pharisee, which Judas says he should not accept.  Jesus replies as if he had believed Judas’ tale and says he will go to Ishmael on the sabbath. He then whispers in Judas’ ear –‘you wretch, what have you done to your soul.’

Editor: it is now increasingly clear that Judas Iscariot is the spy that Lazarus and others warned Jesus about. Judas’ search for John of Endor was at the request of the Temple.  Peter congratulated Jesus on the way he got the former slaves beyond the reach of his enemies.

Thursday, January 25, 29 AD. In Esdrelon.  They are now back in Galilee

Friday, January 26, 29 AD.  At Megiddo which is well south of Nazareth.

Saturday, January 27, 29 AD. Valtorta Vol 3.334. Jesus and his group ask directions to Ishmael the Pharisee at a wayside cottage.  The woman of the house is astounded that Jesus would go to Ishmael whom she regards as cruel and hard hearted.  Jesus says he is the friend of every one and is going because he was invited. 

Jesus tells Ishmael that he is the one whose demand that a widow should do her work as well as that of her late husband actually led to her death and that he, Jesus, had found her orphans that he had driven away in November 28 AD.

It is obvious that Ishmael and his high-ranking friends are expecting him to be King.  They want to meet him to help him be that king in the manner of the world. Jesus points out that he is the King of kings and that his kingdom is entered by victories over ourselves. And those who want to can enter it. 

He asks his host’s friend if it is lawful to heal on the Sabbath and is told no in no uncertain way. Jesus responds as in Lk 14 and then invites the man he had promised to heal into the room and heals him.

It was here that he repeated the parable on the banquet Mt 22 which he had told previously in February 28 AD.

Jesus asks the mighty ones why they think they are perfect when they might be perfect in only one thing. He describes himself as a doctor who opens hearts. He says it is not possible to open hearts without wounding them. He then says that only one word is necessary to change a heart.

That night Jesus and companions slept in a barn.

Sunday, January 28, 29 AD. Near Nazareth Jesus sent his apostle on to evangelise around Lake Galilee. He lists the places they are to go to and adds so that Judas can be sure John of Endor is not there.  Judas protests angerly and is put in his place. 

Editor; Though Valtorta does not say it directly it is evident that Jesus believes Judas’ search for John of Endor was for the benefit of his high- ranking friends in the Temple.

Monday, January 29, 29 AD. Valtorta 3.335. Jesus takes Thomas and Peter to Nazareth. On the way Thomas describes his joy at being with Mary.

Jesus spent the day with his mother. That night when the two apostles are asleep Mary asks Jesus what caused him so much grief that his forehead is wrinkled as though it was ‘cut with a sword’. 

Mary realises that Judas is the cause of his grief and asks that he would send him away.  Mary says she is afraid of him and asks would it not be better if he died. Jesus changes the conversation and tells her everything except about his suffering.

Tuesday, January 30, 29 AD. Jesus heads for Tiberias with Peter, Thomas and his two cousins.

Wednesday, January 31, 29 AD . Jesus ‘probably’ spent the day in Capernaum.

Notes

1. John of Endor, scholar, convicted wife murderer, an escaped slave. He became very close to Jesus who was heartbroken when he was forced to get John and Syntyche ,another escaped and well-read slave, out of Palestine beyond the reach of his enemies.