{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 139/1912-09-17/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But then something strange happens. We are shown how, after John the Baptist had met his physical death, Christ Jesus came to the very neighborhood where John had worked. I want you to take particular notice of a remarkable passage and not to skim over it lightly, for the words of the Gospels are not written for rhetorical effect, nor journalistically. Something very significant is said here. Jesus Christ appears among the throng of followers and disciples of John the Baptist, and this fact is expressed in a sentence to which we must give careful attention: “And as Jesus came out He saw a great crowd,” by which could be meant only the disciples of John, “and He had compassion on them ...” (Mark 6:34.) Why compassion? Because they had lost their master, they were there without John, whose headless corpse we are told had been carried to his grave. But even more precisely is it said, “for they were like sheep who had lost their shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.” It cannot be indicated any more clearly how He teaches John's disciples. He teaches them because the spirit of Elijah, which is at the same time the spirit of John the Baptist, is still active among them. Thus it is again indicated with dramatic power in these significant passages of the Mark Gospel how the spirit of Christ Jesus entered into what had been prepared by the spirit of Elijah-John. Even so this is only one of the main points, around which many other significant things are grouped.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Elijah's Spirit in John the Baptist and Christ","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Wenn Sie weitergehen bis zum sechsten Kapitel, dann hören Sie die ganze Beschreibung, wie der König Herodes den Täufer Johannes köpfen ließ. Aber sehr merkwürdig: man vermutete mancherlei, nachdem die physische Persönlichkeit des Johannes nicht nur verhaftet, sondern durch den Tod hinweggeräumt war. Einigen scheint es, die Wunderkraft, durch die der Christus Jesus wirkt, komme davon her, weil der Christus Jesus selber der Elias sei — oder einer der Propheten. Aber Herodes hat aus seinem geängstigten Gewissen heraus eine sehr merkwürdige Ahnung. Als er hört, was durch den Christus Jesus alles geschah, sagt er: «Johannes, den ich köpfen ließ, der ist auferweckt.» (6, 16.) Herodes spürt, daß, als Johannes als physische Persönlichkeit weg ist, er jetzt erst recht da ist. Er spürt, daß seine Atmosphäre, seine Spiritualität - und die keine andere ist als die Spiritualität des Elias - da ist. Herodes, aus dem gemarterten Gewissen heraus, merkt, wie Johannes der Täufer, das heißt Elias, da ist. Aber dann wird etwas Sonderbares angedeutet, wie der Christus Jesus kam, gerade in die Gegend kam, wo Johannes der Täufer gewirkt hatte, nachdem dieser seinen physischen Tod gefunden hatte. Da steht eine merkwürdige Stelle, die ich Sie bitte, ganz besonders zu berücksichtigen, über die man nicht hinweglesen darf. Denn im Evangelium sind die Worte nicht bloß Redeschmuck; die Evangelisten schreiben noch keinen journalistischen Stil. Da wird etwas sehr Bedeutsames gesagt. Unter die Schar derer tritt der Christus Jesus, welche die Anhänger und Jünger Johannes des Täufers waren, und das wird ausgedrückt in einem Worte, das man berücksichtigen muß: «Und als er herauskam, sah er eine große Menge», womit nur die Jünger des Johannes gemeint sein können, «und hatte Mitleiden mit ihnen ...» Warum Mitleiden? Weil sie ihren Meister verloren hatten, weil sie dastehen ohne den Johannes, von dem gesagt wird, daß sie kurz vorher seinen enthaupteten Leichnam zu Grabe getragen hatten. Es wird aber noch genauer gesagt: «...denn sie waren wie Schafe, die keinen Hirten haben, und fing an, sie vieles zu lehren.» (6, 34.) Man kann nicht deutlicher hinweisen auf die Tatsache, wie er die Jünger des Johannes lehrt. Er lehrt sie aus dem Grunde, weil noch der Geist des Elias unter ihnen wirkt, der zugleich des Geist Johannes des Täufers ist. So wird an einer bedeutungsvollen Stelle des Markus-Evangeliums wieder mit dramatischer Kraft darauf hingewiesen, wie in das, was der Geist des RliasJohannes vorbereitet hat, eintritt der Geist des Christus Jesus. Das alles ist aber nur ein Hauptpunkt, um den sich anderes herumgruppiert, das sehr bedeutsam ist. Ich möchte nur auf eines noch aufmerksam machen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":522,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/139/1912-09-17/p011"}],"english":["GA 139/1912-09-17/p011","GA 139/1912-09-17/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":522,"en_words":547,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8799,"original_word_count":8199,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Conrad Mainzer","identified_edition":"AP1986","book_title":"The Gospel of St. Mark","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA139/English/AP1986/19120917p01.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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