They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.”

He brought the holy items that his father and he had made into God’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

Cursed be the man who made my father very glad when he brought him the news that a baby boy had been born to him!

So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your brother from your heart.”

“But as for that day and hour no one knows it – not even the angels in heaven – except the Father alone.

“But as for that day or hour no one knows it – neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son – except the Father.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

This is why the Father loves me – because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”