human
Go and tell your elders in Nazareth: The house belongs to him who needs it, and let him who has a use for the workshop have it. And leave Him in peace who would build a House in which there are many mansions.
gpt
If you turn a deaf ear and are heedless of us, there is some one else here. And then His mother came forward. She had thrown a blue shawl over her head. She looked ill, and could hardly speak for sobbing. She took hold of His hand:
human
My son! where will all this lead? Can you undertake such responsibility? You reject the belief of your fathers, and you deprive others of it.
gpt
I deprive them of their belief. On the contrary, I give them faith.
human
But, my child, I can't understand it. You are stirring up the whole country. The people leave their houses, their families, their work, to follow you. What enchantment do you practise on them?
gpt
They follow the tidings, He said.
human
They thirst after comfort as the hart pants for water.
gpt
And you call it comfort to starve and freeze in the wilderness, broke in one of his relations;
human
Who is the demagogue?
gpt
Why, you, of course.
human
I? I, who say to you, Peace be with you! Love one another! Do good to your enemies! I, a demagogue?
gpt
They say you claim to be the Messiah who shall conquer the kingdom.
human
A kingdom that is not of this world.
gpt
My dear son, leave all this alone. If it is to be, God will do it all without you. See how lonely your mother is at Nazareth! Come with me to our peaceful home, and be once again my good, dear Jesus. And these here, they love you, they are your brothers.
human
Those are My brothers! Those who acknowledge the Heavenly Father as I do, they are My brothers.
gpt
He is out of His mind. He is possessed by devils.
human
Happy the mother who has such a son! The nations will arise and call her blessed!
gpt
Blessed are those who follow the word of God.
human
Why is He so hard towards His mother?
gpt
He sees salvation only in God the Father. He has converted many people to His view, but just those whom He loves best will not listen to the tidings of the Kingdom of Heaven.
human
He who desires to be My disciple, and his parents and brothers and sisters do not believe in Me, he must forsake his parents and brothers and sisters in order to follow Me. He who has wife and child, and they despise My tidings, he must forsake wife and child and follow _Me_ if he wishes to be My disciple. Who does not love God more than mother and child, than brother and sister, yea, more than himself and his life, he is not worthy of God.
gpt
He asks too much.
human
Whoever is in earnest about his faith in the Heavenly Father cannot speak otherwise. He feels Himself how hard it is to destroy all ties. Do you not observe how He struggles with Himself, and must subdue His own heart, so that it may lose its power over Him? He asks all from His disciples because He gives them all. We already know that what He has to give us is worth more than all we have given up.
gpt
My Father which art in Heaven, Thy will be done!