He always answered: "What use is the world to you if you have no soul! Herein alone is the secret of salvation; a man must find his soul and preserve it, and raise it to the Father." Or, as He put it differently: "God is to be found in the spirit!" And when the stranger audience asked what "in the spirit" meant, the apostles explained: "He means spiritual life.

He would not have man live his life merely in the flesh; man's real self.

He teaches, is a spiritual reality, and the more a man works spiritually and lives in ideas which are not of the earth, the nearer he comes to God, who is wholly spirit." "Then," said they, "men learned in the law are nearer to God than the workers in the field." To which John replied: "A man learned in the law who depends only on the letter is far from the spirit.

The labourer who does not draw a profit from the land but thinks and imagines how to improve it, is near the spirit." On the road between Caedasa and Tyre is a farm.

When its owner heard that the Prophet was in the neighbourhood, he sent out people to find Him and invite Him to go to the farm where He would be safe from the snares of the Pharisees.