The followers of the Gospel… hold as impossible that the
Bearer of a new Revelation should again shine forth from the dayspring of the
Will of God after Jesus, Son of Mary—peace be upon Him! In support of this
contention, they adduce the following verse from the Gospel: “Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but the words of the Son of Man shall never pass away.” [cf.
Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33.] They maintain that neither the
teachings nor the commandments of Jesus—peace be upon Him! —may ever be
altered.At one point in the Gospel, He saith: “I go away, and come again.” [John 14:28] Again in the Gospel of John, He hath foretold the advent of a Comforter who shall come after Him. [cf. John 14:16; 14:26; 15:26; 16:7] In the Gospel of Luke, moreover, a number of signs and portents have been mentioned. Certain divines of that Faith, however, have interpreted these utterances after their own fancy, and have thus failed to grasp their true significance.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to
Nasiri’d-Din Shah, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord
of Hosts’)
