Great Gospel of John

The Great Gospel of John by Jakob Lorber is about 2,000 pages long. It was written over the course of several years in the middle 1800s, in Austria.

The "Great Gospel" is a narrative of Jesus' last three years of ministry on Earth. It is a day by day account of his miracles, healings, and conversations. It is built on the same structure of the original Gospel of John.

In this book, Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. The "Great Gospel" does not contradict the original gospel, only providing much greater depth on all of its material. Pharisees are revealed to be extremely dangerous, continually plotting against Jesus even though he often forgave them; at one point, a Pharisaical plot to steal from the Romans is revealed, and at their trial Jesus, whose reputation for keen wisdom is known to the Romans by this time, is consulted. The Roman centurion is willing to execute the Pharisees because of their attempt to bribe him, yet Jesus says to let them go, after dividing their plunder: one third to Rome, one-third to the centurion's local needs, and one-third to the poor people of the nearby communities, some of whose children had been kidnapped by the Pharisees, to be sold as slaves.

Thus mercy and forgiveness and patience come through, yet in much richer detail than the original Gospel, which Jesus says is an eternal book, that the original "Gospel of John" is far above the other gospels in its eternal mission.

The entire conversation with the woman at the well reveals why she was so eager to accept Jesus as God, and the miracle of her cure from an illness which had killed the men who loved her, makes the story more interesting than the few words captured in the original Gospel. Likewise, the conversation with Nicodemus reveals more of the nature of a man who loved and supported Jesus throughout his three-year journey; the reader is often confronted with recognizing subtle and complex attributes of his own character revealed in the conversations with others.

Jesus at one point describes his physical appearance, and there is much more information about the Fall of the Spirits, and Lucifer's role in creation, as well as a continual return to the importance of love, freedom, and hungering for knowledge.