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Maria Valtorta THE GOSPEL AS REVEALED TO ME THE GOSPEL AS REVEALED TO ME 7 parts The birth and Hidden Life of Mary and Jesus chapters 1-43 The first year of the Public Life of Jesus chapters 44-140 The second year of the Public Life of Jesus chapters 141-312 The third year of the Public Life of Jesus chapters 313-540 Preparation for the Passion of Jesus chapters 541-600 Passion and Death of Jesus chapters 601-615 Glorification of Jesus and Mary chapters 616-651 Farewell to the Work, chapter 652 10 volumes Volume One, chapters 1-78 Volume Two, chapters 79-159 Volume Three, chapters 160-225 Volume Four, chapters 226-295 Volume Five, chapters 296-363 Volume Six, chapters 364-432 Volume Seven, chapters 433-500 Volume Eight, chapters 501-554 Volume Nine, chapters 555-600 Volume Ten, chapters 601-652 Maria Valtorta THE GOSPEL AS REVEALED TO ME VOLUME TEN Chapters 601-652 CENTRO EDITORIALE VALTORTIANO Original title: Maria Valtorta, L’Evangelo come mi è stato rivelato Copyright© 2001 by Centro Editoriale Vaitorti ano srl.. Viale Piscicelli 89-91, 03036 Isola del Liri (fr) - Italy. Translated from Italian by Nicandro Picozzi Maria Valtorta, The Gospel as revealed to me. 10 volumes. Second edition All rights reserved in all countries Copyright © 2012 by Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl., Viale Piscicelli 89-91, 03036 Isola del Liri (fr) - Italy. ISBN 978-88-7987-190-7 (Volume ten) ISBN 978-88-7987-180-8 (Complete work in 10 volumes) Graphic and printing: Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl., Isola del Liri (Fr) - Italy Reprinted in Italy, 2014. Previous edition: Maria Valtorta, The Poem of the Man-God, 5 volumes, © 1986 by Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl INDEX Passion and Death of Jesus. 601. Introduction. 11 602. Towards Gethsemane with eleven apostles. The spirit ual agony and the arrest. Matt 26: 36-56; Mark 14: 32-52; Luke 22: 39-53; John 18: 1-11 14 603. Meditations on the agony at Gethsemane. Enlighten ments on the other sufferings of the Passion. 35 604. The various trials. Peter’s denials. Reflections on Pilate. Matt 26: 57-75; 27: 1-2. 11-31; Mark 14: 53-72; 15: 1-20; Luke 22: 54-71; 23: 1-25; John 18: 12-40; 19: 1-16 43 605. Judas Iscariot’s desperation and suicide. If he had re pented he could still be saved. Matt 27: 3-10 78 60 6. Jesus and Mary are the antithesis of Adam and Eve. Ju das Iscariot is the new Cain. The real evolution of man is that of the spirit. 89 607. John goes to get Mary. 99 608. The way of the Cross from the Praetorium to Calvary. Matt 27: 32; Mark 15: 21; Luke 23: 26-32 102 609. The Crucifixion, the death and the Deposition of Jesus. Matt 27: 33-58; Mark 15: 22-45; Luke 23: 33-52; John 19: 17-39 120 610. At the Sepulchre. The embalming and the preparation of Jesus’ body. Spiritual Anguish of Mary. Matt 27: 59-61; Mark 15: 46-47; Luke 23: 53-55; John 19: 40-42 148 611. The closing of the Sepulchre and the return to the Sup per room. 160 612. The night of Good Friday. The lamentation of the Bless- ed Virgin. Nike’s linen cloth and the preparation of the ointments for the embalming. Luke 23: 56 172 7 613. The redeeming value of Jesus’ and Mary’s sufferings. John’s “co-Passion”. 194 614. The Holy Saturday. 203 615. The night of the Holy Saturday. 214 The Glorification of Jesus and Mary. 616. The morning of the Resurrection. Mary’s prayer. 225 617. The Resurrection. 236 618. Jesus appears to His Mother. 239 619. The pious women at the Sepulchre. Matt 28: 1-15; Mark 16: 1- 11; Luke 24: 1-12; John 20: 1-8 242 620. Comment on the Resurrection. 252 621. Jesus appears to Lazarus. 256 622. Jesus appears to Johanna of Chuza. 262 623. Jesus appears to Joseph of Arimathea, to Nicodemus and to Manaen. 267 624 Jesus appears to the shepherds. 269 625. Jesus appears to the disciples of Emmaus. Mark 16: 12-13; Luke 24: 13-35 272 626. The coming of the Romans and the admission of other apparitions. 281 627. Jesus appears to the ten apostles in the Supper room. Luke 24: 36-43; John 20: 19-23 285 628. The return of Thomas and his incredulity. John 20: 24-25 297 629. Jesus appears to the apostles with Thomas. Speech on priesthood and the future priests. Mark 16: 14; John 20: 26-29 301 630. The apostles are sent to Gethsemane. Meditation on the prayer C(Our Father”. 311 631. The apostles go along the way of the Cross up to Golgo tha. Their return to the Supper room. Mark 16: 17-18 332 8 632. Jesus appears to various people in different places. 350 633. Jesus appears on the shores of the lake. The mission con ferred to Peter. John 21: 1-24 389 634. Jesus appears on mount Tabor. Teachings to the apostles and to about five hundred disciples. Marjiam consoled. Matt 28: 16-17 396 635. Further teachings: a lesson on the Sacraments and the predictions about the Church. 410 636. The supplementary Passover. 430 637. Farewell to Her Mother before ascending to His Father. Everything we have is through Mary. 437 638. Final teachings at Gethsemane and farewell. Ascension Of the Lord. Matt 28: 18-20; Mark 16: 15-16. 19; Luke 24: 44-53; Acts 1: 6-11 441 639. The election of Matthias. Acts 1: 12-26 457 640. The descent of the Holy Spirit. End of the Messianic cy cle. Mark 16: 20; Acts 2: 1-4 462 641. Peter celebrates the Eucharist in a meeting with the first Christians. 468 642. The blessed Virgin takes up Her abode at Gethsemane with John who foretells Her assumption. 472 643. The Blessed Virgin and John in the places of the Passion. 480 644. Institution of the “Day of the Lord”. Gradual conversion of Gamaliel. The two Shrouds. 484 645. The trial and martyrdom of Stephen. The opposite ways of Saul and Gamaliel. Acts 6: 8-15; 7; 8: 1 491 646. The secret burial of Stephen. The beginning of the perse cution. Acts 8: 1-2 501 647. Gamaliel becomes a Christian. 504 648. Peter takes leave from the Blessed Virgin after a conver sation with John. 510 649. The blissful passage of the Blessed Virgin. 515 9 650. The glorious Assumption of Our Lady. 527 651 On the passage, the Assumption and the royalty of the Blessed Virgin. 533 652. Farewell to the Work. 541 10 Passion and Death of Jesus. 601. Introduction. 10th February 1944. 1Jesus says: 601. 1 «And now come. Although this evening you are like one who is about to take his last breath, come, so that I may lead you to wards My sufferings. Long is the way that we shall have to cover together, because I was not spared any sorrow: neither the pain of the flesh, nor the grief of the mind, of the heart, of the spirit. I tasted all of them, I fed on all of them, I quenched My thirst with all of them, to the extent that I died of them. If you laid your lips on Mine, you would taste the bitterness that they still retain of so much sorrow. If you could see My Hu man nature in its appearance, which is now refulgent, you would see that that refulgence emanates from the countless wounds that like a garment of living purple covered My limbs, lacerated, exsanguinated, beaten, pierced for your sake. My Human nature is now refulgent. But one day it was like that of a leper, so fierce ly it had been struck and humiliated. The Man-God, Who had in Himself the perfection of physical handsomeness, being the Son of God and of the immaculate Woman, to those who cast loving, curious, scornful, or evil glances at Him, seemed a “worm”, as David says, the scorn of mankind, the jest of people. My love for My Father and for My Father’s children led Me to abandon My body to those who struck Me, to offer My face to those who slapped Me and spat at Me, to those who thought they were doing a meritorious deed by tearing My hair and My beard, piercing My head with thorns, making the earth and its fruits accomplices of the tortures inflicted on their Saviour, dislocat ing My limbs, laying bare My bones, tearing off My garments, thus offending My purity in the most cruel manner, nailing Me to a piece of wood and lifting Me up like a slaughtered lamb on to the hooks of a butcher, and barking around Me, while I was in 11 agony, like a pack of ravenous wolves made even wilder by the smell of blood. I was accused, condemned, killed, betrayed, disowned, sold. I was abandoned even by God, because I was burdened with the crimes I had taken upon Myself. They made Me poorer than a beggar spoiled by highwaymen, because they did not even leave Me My tunic to cover My livid nakedness of a martyr. Even after My death I was not spared the insult of a wound and the slander of enemies. I was overwhelmed by all the dirt of your sins, I was hurled down as far as the bottom of the darkness of sorrow, de prived of the light of Heaven that might reply to My dying eyes, and of the divine voice that might answer My last invocation.