Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?

He answered them, “Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things?

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

“Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem?

How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?