During that broadcast a woman phoned in telling him to read the thirteenth chapter of Mark, and he answered her with 1 John 3:2, telling her to keep looking until she looked like him.
Date (happened)
c. 1962
certain
- c. 1962
- c. 1962
Place
Persons
Told / reported
- 12 April 1963
- 12 April 1963
Sources
Source
- The Resurrection ¶71 (One lady called in—the phone was ringing like mad—and she said, “Tell that man to read the 13 th chapter of Mark!!”)
Attested in 1 lecture
| Date | Lecture or book | Telling | Passage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-04-12 [exact/certain/final] | The Resurrection | “Touch me not as I have not yet ascended.” That statement… I heard it by Wilberforce, who was once Dean of Canterbury. He said the true translation of the phrase is, “Hold me not back by your tears and your sorrow because of my going. That you, by your emotional upheaval because of my exit, are holding me in your sphere.” So do not by your sense of loss of me hold me back because mind communes with mind. So free me. Let me go. For if I do not go, the Holy Spirit cannot come, so let me go. But if by one’s sense of loss you’re always thinking of the departed with a sense of heavy loss, you’re… | 530193 |