Then Jesus said, “A man had two sons.

He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became anguished and distressed.

and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All-Powerful Lord.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

So Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s business partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.”

The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light.

But if the ministry that produced death – carved in letters on stone tablets – came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.