Most Assuredly, I Say To You

“Very truly I tell you”
الحق الحق أقول لكم
“He who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.” — John 5:24

“Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live… He is the Son of Man.” — John 5:30

The Son of Man

His words and His deeds as told and recorded by those who knew Him
By Khalil Gibran

Of this noble book on the words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth, I know now that the book will never be a book to me, but always a host of living entities, breathing and vocal. And not because of Khalil Gibran, my well-beloved friend, but rather because of the livingness of Anna, the mother of Mary; of Matthew and the Sermon on the Mount; of Joseph of Arimathaea, reporting the words of Jesus; of Susannah of Nazareth, and her story of the mother of Jesus; of Mary Magdalene; and of Cyborea, the mother of Judas. It is these who live upon the pages of this book, not merely the great man who loved it into being.

Gibran has done this work supremely well. It has been done with singular power by one fully conscious of the social, political, and religious Palestine, Syria, and Rome of that period; one who was at home in the richness and significance of the traditions, and in the history and the language of the country of Jesus. The Aramaic that Jesus spoke was Gibran’s other language. The atmosphere and the aspect of the land of Judea are cast like a spell upon the reader, who, moving through the scenes of those days and that country, is aware of far more than the words upon the printed page.

We behold the Young Man of Nazareth as we have never beheld Him, for in this Jesus of Gibran’s, for the first time since the writings of the Gospels, a countryman of Jesus writes of His words and deeds.

— Barbara Young, in This Man from Lebanon: A Study of Khalil Gibran (Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher)

Peace on Earth

السلام على الأرض وفي الناس المسرة
PAIX SUR TERRE

FRIEDEN AUF ERDEN

PACE SULLA TERRA
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