We now go, and many who met us did greet us, but no one asks us where we were and where we were going.
But on the way we also encounter Judas Iscariot, who asks us where we had been and where we were now going. He had not been in the synagogue; he had been selling his fish and pottery at the market and had taken in much money, which made him very happy. Nevertheless he went with us into My house and enjoyed the food there because it cost him nothing. But after the meal he immediately went back to his market stall and conducted his money dealings there, for the market lasted three days. All manner of merchants did much business there and had their goods well paid for.
The next day mother Mary asked Me whether I would not do something publicly here again, how long I would stay in the house this time, and whether anyone else would join us, so that she could look about for sufficient provisions; for the present supply, she said, was almost exhausted.
I say, ‘Woman, do not worry about Me, about My company or about sufficient provisions! For behold, to Him who nourishes the whole great earth and satisfies the sun, the moon and all the stars with His love, this little house is not unknown, and He knows quite precisely what this house needs. Therefore do not trouble yourself or worry; for what you are now worrying about has already been provided for from above.
‘The Father in heaven does not let His children go hungry, except when it is necessary for their salvation.
‘You have surely seen most abundantly in Sychar how the Father in heaven had provided for His little children!? Do you think He has grown harder in these few days?! Go out into the pantry and you will see that you have worried in vain!’
Mary now hurries into the pantry and finds it packed with bread, flour, fruit, smoked and fresh fish, milk, cheese, butter and honey. When the mother sees such a great supply in the pantry, she becomes quite apprehensive; she hurries back to Me, falls on her knees before Me and, kneeling, thanks Me for such abundant provision for her pantry. But I quickly bend down to the ground, raise the mother up and say to her, ‘What are you doing to Me that belongs to the Father alone? Get up! For we two have known each other for thirty years already, and I am always the selfsame and unchanged.’
But Mary weeps for joy, greets all My disciples and then quickly goes out to prepare us a good midday meal.
But the disciples come to Me and say, ‘See, what a dear woman, and what a most tender mother! She is already forty-five years old and looks as though she had scarcely completed her twentieth year. And how extraordinarily tender and caring she is, and how high the purest motherly love swells her truly holy, purest breast! Truly, a woman of women of the whole earth!’
I say, ‘Yes, yes, she is the first, and there will never again be another like her. But it will also come to pass that people will build more temples for her than for Me, and honor her ten times more than Me, and will believe they can become blessed only through her.
‘Therefore I now also wish that she should not be exalted too much, since she well knows that she is the mother of My body, and also knows Who is behind this body which she bore.
‘Therefore be exceedingly good and courteous to her; only guard against according her any divine veneration.
‘For with all her qualities, most excellent beyond all measure, she is nevertheless only a woman; and from the best woman to vanity there is and remains only a very small interval.
‘And every vanity is the seed of pride, from which all evil has come into the world, comes now and will come at all times. Therefore observe also towards the mother what I have now told you.’