{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-07-02/p059","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Modern publishers of the Gospels assign to this chapter the highly superfluous title, “Jesus walks on the sea”—as though that were stated anywhere in this chapter! Where does it say, “Jesus walks on the sea”? It says, “The disciples saw Jesus walking on the sea.” That is the point. The Gospels must be taken literally. It is simply a case of the Christ force having again increased in strength. So powerful had it become as a natural result of its exercise in the previous deeds that not only could it now act from one soul upon another—not only could the soul of Christ communicate itself, in its force, to other souls—but the Christ could live in His own form before the soul of another who was ripe for it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"9. The Artistic Composition of the Gospel of St. John","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-07-02","location":null,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-07-02/p059","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Samuel and Loni Lockwood","identified_edition":"AP1948","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/AP1948/19090702p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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So stark war sie geworden durch die selbstverständliche Verstärkung in der Übung in den letzten Taten, daß jetzt nicht nur die Christus-Kraft von einer Seele in die andere wirken konnte, daß sich nicht nur die Christus-Seele in ihren Kräften mitteilen konnte den anderen Seelen, sondern daß der Christus in seiner eigenen Gestalt vor der Seele des anderen leben konnte, der dazu geeignet war. Also das Ereignis ist dieses: Irgend jemand ist an einem anderen Orte, seine Kraft ist so stark, daß sie wirkt auf entfernte Menschen, die weit weg sind. So stark wirkt sie aber jetzt, die Christus-Kraft, daß sie nicht bloß in den Jüngern eine Kraft auslöst, wie sie bei denen war, die sich mit ihm auf dem Berge gelagert hatten; da war nur die Kraft übergegangen auf die Jünger, um das Wunder zu wirken. Jetzt haben sie die Kraft, obwohl sie mit physischen Augen nicht da hineinsehen können, wo der Christus ist, den Christus zu sehen und seine eigene Gestalt zu schauen. Der Christus konnte in der Ferne sichtbar werden für diejenigen, zu denen sich sein Seelenband bereits geknüpft hatte. Jetzt ist seine eigene Gestalt so weit, daß sie geistig gesehen werden kann. In dem Augenblick, als die Möglichkeit des physischen Sehens bei den Jüngern schwindet, da taucht die Möglichkeit des geistigen Sehens bei ihnen um so mehr auf, und sie sehen den Christus. Das Sehen in die Ferne ist aber durchaus so, daß man das Bild des Gegenstandes wie in seiner unmittelbaren Nähe hat. Wiederum eine Steigerung der Christus-Kraft. Das nächste Zeichen ist die Heilung des Blindgeborenen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":325,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-02/p047"}],"english":["GA 112/1909-07-02/p059","GA 112/1909-07-02/p060"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":325,"en_words":317,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7221,"original_word_count":7410,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Samuel and Loni Lockwood","identified_edition":"AP1948","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/AP1948/19090702p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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