September 29 AD

Jesus travels from north to the south passing through Jerusalem. Both he and his mother are increasingly conscious that the end is nigh.

Appx September 1, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.471.  Heading south from Syro- Phoenicia Jesus was met by a group seeking his help. His attention was called by a small boy whose mother told Jesus he had no eyes but as Jesus was God who had made heaven and earth he could give the boy eyes. 

Jesus praised her faith and did more than that, he gave her back her husband who was contemplating divorce on account of her inability to give him a son capable of taking on his successful business.

In a comment on that Vision Jesus says God always surpasses the requests of his children who have faith in him.

Jesus says such a healing exclusively relies on his power. Reconciling people requires the will of men together with the desire of God. He adds God rarely does violence to human freedom.

Jesus says he would like wives to meditate on the respectful humility of this woman. He praises her faith, humility, and faithfulness to her consort, which he says, is the path to take when thorns rather than roses are found and to see thorns replaced by flowers.

God created marriage for love forming one body in an indissoluble bond.

The purpose of the sacrament of marriage is to allow his blessings and merits to make faithful true companions of each other in a pact made before My altar.

Valtorta 4.472.  is a description of the ecstasies Valtorta experienced on August 15 and 16,1946.

She concludes that men can find the love of God without waiting for heaven by loving Jesus.

Valtorta wonders what theologians will make of her account and reminds them she knows nothing of theology, she just describes things as best she can.

Tuesday, September 4, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.473.  Near Ptolomais, having slept in the open they join the crowds making their way to Jerusalem for the feast of Tabernacles. They meet Able, the innocent young man Jesus saved from execution on June 18, 28 AD.

Able asks Jesus to forgive and heal his would-be murderers and (Valtorta 4.474) takes Jesus into the mountains to meet the now lepers.  Jesus is severe but forgives them only after they invoke his mother. He does not heal them immediately but will when Able returns from Jerusalem with instructions for them.  As Jesus goes the disfigured men intone Psalm 114.

Wednesday, September 5, 29 AD. Leaving Sycaminum they travelled towards Samaria. He met his mother in a glade near Nazareth which he did not enter.  His mother brings him his winter clothes and some food.

Mary tells how Jesus’ cousin Joseph asked her to help him understand the scriptures about Jesus. She says it is not easy for those with a firm belief in a temporal kingdom.  She knows there is an attempt to force Jesus to accept a crown.

Jesus asks Mary to move to Jerusalem in the spring and as they have no secrets, they discuss what none of the apostles know, namely that neither Jesus nor they will return to Nazareth till after his sacrifice.

Commenting on this vision Jesus talks of the sufferings of Mary over his 32 years, her travels to join him ‘here and there’, mingling with crowds in and away from her home, particularly being with his betrayers, the spiritual abandonment by The Father, the torment of her continual farewells, the falsehood of his followers and knowledge that too few would be saved.

Thursday, September 6, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.476. At the plain of Jezreel at dawn. Jesus meets his cousin Joseph. Joseph explains his difficulties in accepting Jesus as Messiah:

*fear from the memories of the fate of Judas of Galilee, executions, confiscations, families sent to the galleys, ruin;

* Jesus did not cut the figure of the prophesised Messiah;

* no regal grandeur as prophesied;

* memories of his father’s disapproval of his brother (St) Joseph’s delay in marrying Mary and the slights of Nazareth insinuating sin.

* It is difficult to accept the character of the Messiah as different from king.

He says Jesus ’mother explained all to him hence his acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah.  He then told Jesus that he should proclaim himself and get the elite in Judea to accept him by going to the Temple, preaching, and do wonders revealing his power and authority.

Jesus says he has been doing that for two and a half years. But he said the rabbis and the elite hate him.  Jesus then went on to explain how he could not be just ‘a king.’ He is the King of kings and to do so would jeopardise the salvation of the world.

One of Gamaliel’s hearers referenced the meeting at which Jesus was offered the throne saying that had Jesus accepted, Gamaliel said he could not have accepted him as the Messiah.

Jesus commented that Gamaliel was a just man but would never be a disciple in His lifetime but that he would get the sign that was promised to him at his exam 20 years previously.

In the evening, they were near Johanan’s fields—John who was exhausted slept through the night.

Friday, September 7, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.479. John slept through the meeting of the Johanan’s servants who had to meet without their employer’s knowledge.  They set off for El Gannim at dawn and arrived soaked to the skin before the Sabbath began.

The apostles are made aware of the intensity of the Pharisee’s hunt for Jesus and also that Jesus was very upset by their hatred. They stayed there for the Sabbath.

Sunday, September 9, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.480 They headed south and then east to Samaria where Jesus conversed with a shepherd who told him what he had heard of a prophet said to be the Messiah. Jesus did not reveal himself. But after leaving him the man discovered his paralysed son had been cured which led to the town descending on Jesus.

The residents guided him onto a shortcut over rugged mountains to Ephraim.

Monday, September 10, 29 AD.  Valtorta 4.481. They were welcomed in Shekhem and went on to the outskirts of Ephraim where they were greeted by ten lepers of Luke 17. The apostles wanted to evade them as they wanted to bypass the town.

 Jesus sent the ten to their various village priests but one realising he was cured came back full of the spirit of praise for the Messiah.  Once again, his journey was delayed by crowds alerted by the healings.

Jesus agreed to talk to them and delivered a parable based on the bitter divisions within a pomegranate symbolising the bitter divisions between nations and even within them.  There was only one Adam and Eve, all men are brothers. He promises that faith in him and his doctrine will do away with hate.

The villagers were aware of the threat to Jesus from the ruling elite and gave them a route that the Pharisees would not use. That night they slept in a cave.

Editor’s note: With just over six months to the passion there was no doubt among the people in multiple villages that Jesus was under a dire threat.

Tuesday, September 11, 29AD. Valtorta 4.483.  As Jesus and the apostles approach Bethany several people leave them in no doubt about Lazarus’ condition.  They are met by the distraught sisters and Jesus spends time with the dying man.

Later he meets a large number of his disciples who tell him that they have people watching all the roads into Jerusalem to protect Jesus from his enemies.

Judas outlines a strategy for Jesus to surprise his enemies.

September 12- 15 AD. Valtorta 4.484.  The first of a three-day visit to the Temple where people were looking for Jesus as recounted in Jn 7. After his visit to the Temple Jesus goes to the court of the Gentiles and takes up his position as is customary for the rabbis.  Jesus repeats much the same ground as he did with the doctors twenty years previously (May 2, 9 AD, Valtorta 1.40). He explained the prophecies about the Christ, his precursor, and the signs that would confirm the Messiah.

He does not attack his critics but sets out to confirm his followers in their faith. He describes the liberation from domination in the perfect kingdom of Christ.

A pharisee interrupts saying that If Jesus were king, it would be the ruin of Israel. He disparages Jesus’ lack of troops and money.’ Many agree with him.

Other Pharisees dispute this saying we do not know what his kingdom would be like and that David’s kingdom was not perfect.

Jesus intervenes and says simply his critics do not believe that God can make his Christ a Galilean nor a man of the people, nothing is impossible to God.

An argument develops about the origins of lust. Jesus defines it as a disorder where a free intelligence is aware a desire is evil but wants to satisfy it anyway.

A further dispute arises over which is the greater sin – doubt about Jesus or pride. Jesus says pride is the greater sin as pride scoffs at God by pretending to be greater than God.

Jesus is pressed to say when the kingdom of God will be. Jesus says it will be when he is lifted on the throne Israel is preparing him. He then pronounces that the Kingdom of God is within you.  Those who live by its law are citizens of heaven.

He recalls that at his birth the prayer was peace to men of goodwill.  He defines goodwill as the will that does the will of God and does not oppose it. Jesus says my glory is to do the will of God.

Jesus stresses that the Ten Commandments came from God and accuses the crowd of ignoring them which brought howls of protest. Jesus reveals that his enemies are in breach of them by trying to kill him. This is denied and Jesus is called a liar. Jesus insists saying they are trying to find excuses to do so.

 Jesus criticises assessing things by appearances and by the letter of law. He said to use sound judgment according to the spirit. 

He announces that his time is coming to an end and that he must suffer everything and be rejected by this generation. He clarifies this adding that he will suffer in his spirit of love for all generations, all generations will trample on his love.

Sunday, September 16, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.485.  For the second day, Jesus visits the Temple. Jn 7.  A crowd was waiting for him but there was great uncertainty whether he would be allowed to speak. Some argue about Jesus’ origins, his birthplace, and where he grew up. Some mention knowing people who saw him when he was born and others who knew of him in Galilee.

Gamaliel quietens the crowd and orders Jesus to speak to his accusers.

Jesus makes numerous points;

• I speak not to defend
• to give you light;
• to know the truth;
• you see that I am a man like yourselves;
• you think a man can’t be a Messiah
• that he should be an angel
• that the Messiah should have mysterious origin;
• an authority based on a mysterious origin.
• Scripture never says God begot an angel
• He only begets another Himself, the Son.
• But many of you were present when God spoke at the ford (of the baptism) and heard the voice of God which is unmistakable.
• Christ is a God joined to a human:
• To redeem men through the same flesh and to appease God.

Jesus says both the Father and the Son wanted that and God became a man mysteriously.

He says an Angel cannot appease God.  I asked to consume all the sorrow in the world to give you eternal life.

Jesus asked why do you not want to believe me?

Do you not believe the scriptures that point to a mysterious priest before Aaron to whom God said you ARE a priest forever. 

Jesus then declares that he is that priest.

Valtorta comments not everyone understood Jesus including herself but they knew that he had enunciated great things.

Gamaliel asks to speak to Jesus alone.  He tells Jesus that he had written down what Jesus said so he could meditate on them and then asks for the sign Jesus promised at his examination at their meeting 20 years previously (May 2, 9 AD. Valtorta 1.41).

Jesus promises to give the, now venerable, rabbi the sign of the vibrating walls of the Temple.

Afterwards, Gamaliel is mocked when he does not reply to questions about his conversation with Jesus.

Monday, September 17, 29, AD. Valtorta 4.486. When Jesus returned to the Temple, he was told the search for him had continued with his enemies looking for him everywhere. Some Gentiles tell him they were afraid he had been caught or had even gone away in disgust.

But Jesus went into the Temple to pray and, later left Jerusalem in a roundabout way. He was guided north of Jerusalem to Nob through routes known only to shepherds. The apostles were worried about his safety but were reassured about the loyalty of some villages north of Jerusalem. Jn 7.31ff.

Jesus met a man who had heard Simeon’s prophecies at Jesus’ presentation in 4 BC.

He tells a parable about a great king who visited his distant regions and how he was neither recognised nor understood. His subjects feared him but without malice.  This distressed the king who pleaded with his people not to stay away from him and that their sins should not keep them away. How can you learn if you stay away from me, he said.

That afternoon the town was hit by a hurricane but Jesus silenced the destructive wind with a simple state, ‘I want it.’

Tuesday, September 18, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.488. In the afternoon, they went back to Jerusalem’s southern section. In the evening, they went to the Galileans’ field.  He welcomed children Lk 18. He received a Levite he had met a year earlier and then returned to Jerusalem through the Sheep Gate.

The Galileans are worried that Jesus is going to be away for a long time. On his way back to the city Jesus’ cousin Judas of Alpheus warns Jesus about Judas Iscariot who always has money, and is not the same as them but is tolerated by his supposed enemies.

Wednesday, September 19. 29 AD.  Valtorta 4.489. In the Temple as in Jn 7.37. Valtora notes that the composition of the 72 has changed as many of the older ones left after Jesus talked of his body as food and were replaced by others.

Jesus makes his dramatic call to those who thirst, promising rivers of water from the bosoms of those who believe in him. He explains Ezekiel’s true Jerusalem and the importance of the sign that saves, the Tau.

He explains Ezekiel’s vision of dry bones. Bones without the life of the Spirit, many of whom are alive but spiritually dead.  He asks why those who have been given so much are dead.  He then swears in the name of the Almighty that many will rise again, that he shall infuse the Spirit into us and we will live.

God has taken flesh to clothe his Word and sent him to speak to the dead ones. He is the Resurrection and the life and those who believe in him will form the new Temple from which will run rivers of water.

This will be possible because He, Jesus, will not die, gone but not dead, and replaced with another that will complete his work. He talks of when he is gone, that he will not die, and that another will come to set you on fire as he completes His work.

The crowds are spellbound.  The High Priest sends an order for Jesus to leave the Temple precincts after the guards refused to do so.

Jesus went to the olive grove and later to Bethany where questions were asked about the escaped slaves, Syntyche, and John of Endor.

Jesus said that whoever betrayed them, forcing their exile was a demon.  He said that there were many ways to murder someone. He regarded John of Endor as murdered and added that he who betrayed him would do so again. At the fountain at En-Rogel, Jesus says the Wise men camped there and spoke of wisdom as protecting one’s ego from disgrace.

Thursday, September 20, 29AD. Valtorta 4.492. A cold day. Jesus is back in the Temple where outraged scribes, Pharisees, and the curious drag a wretched woman caught in adultery to him.

Jesus ignores the outraged mob but writes on the dust-strewn pavement sins the accusers have committed. He sends the woman home to ask forgiveness of her seriously offended husband.  Afterwards, he says the accusers had committed her crime many times and worse ones.

He said sinners must be treated with kindness and dignity and the fault must be addressed. He said that the sins of wives and daughters are often caused by their not being loved. He explains that sin has only to be desired to be a sin.

After this Jesus and the 12 went east from Jerusalem.

Valtorta 4.493. On the way Jesus had to defend his forgiving the adulterous woman, she was not stoned because there was no one to stone her, hence he upheld the law..

He is told but you could have stoned her.  To which said it would have been justice but not mercy.  Forgiveness is to be given to those who ask for it. 

This can give time for repentance. The woman was not repentant, only frightened but I did not condone her adultery but I gave her time to repent should she so wish.

Friday, September 21 AD.  Valtorta 4.494.  They crossed the Jordan and arrived at Soloman’s village at dusk.  The conversation turned to the hunt for Jesus.

 Their host, Ananias, like so many others in the past few months, had been closely questioned about Jesus’ whereabouts and also about John of Endor’s location.

Ananias said he was shocked to find so much hatred of Jesus in Jerusalem when he went there for the rite following his being cured. He asks simply why man had so much hate.  Jesus replied because man has killed his spirit and because of this his capacity to feel remorse.

The apostles agree with Judas that they do not want to hear about death to which Jesus says not wanting to hear it is of no avail the important thing is not to consent.

Judas demands who would consent to that.   Jesus replied: those who dream of him being killed in his blood of Messiah. He says his enemies hope to kill the light that will light up the world and devour even the gates of Heaven, a fire that will destroy his enemies and those who hate light.

Judas told him to be quiet and stormed out of the house. A prolonged silence is broken when Jesus reminds them the meal is ready.

Saturday, September 22, 29 AD. After the Sabbath, they went to villages between the Jordan and present-day Amman.

Valtorta 4.495.  Peter is alone and is sitting dejected when Jesus finds him. You are subject to your hour of sadness, he says. 

Peter is aware of his lack of anything but Jesus says the more a man serves God the more Satan tries to frighten him with the future.  All the talk of death and persecution has got to him. He says let me die now before you.

Jesus says all we can do is pray, prayer dispels Satan’s phantoms. With God near us, we can put up with anything.

Later, probably the next day, there is a dispute between James of Zebedee and Judas Iscariot which draws a rebuke that upsets them. Jesus says he wants something from us- understanding.

He goes on to say he could have made men of angels but that would have been of no use. It is hard for men to believe in God, man can only believe in man so I needed to be a man.

He talks of Peter as an example of a man who has been transformed.

This prompts some to say they were amazed when Jesus appointed Peter as their chief thinking that Simon Zealot or Nathaniel would have been better leaders but now agree with Jesus’ choice.

Monday, September 24, 29 AD. Valtorta 4.497. They headed south and were not welcome in Heshbon.  A merchant leading a camel train asks Jesus to cure his blind sons. Jesus agrees to meet him with his sons at Mt Nebo where Moses died.  Jesus then went up the mountain for a few days about which Valtorta records nothing.

September 24-30, 29 AD. They spent these days in the mountains with some shepherds

Sunday, September 30, 29 AD. They came to a village at the foot of Mt Nebo where they were welcomed. Jesus told some parables. He met the merchant and healed his sons.

Jude Thadeus recalls a childhood incident when playing with Jesus where Jesus fell down pretending to be dead which elicited a scream from Jesus’ mother.

Judas Iscariot asks Jesus ‘you will never die?’  But Jesus says he will die and rise again as prophesied He goes on to say many will die that day even though they live their spirits are dead, and they will never rise.

Judas responds by telling Jesus never to repeat that he will rise again or he will be accused of blasphemy.