If I have told you people about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”