These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God – the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come – the All-Powerful!

Now I heard the angel of the waters saying: “You are just – the one who is and who was, the Holy One – because you have passed these judgments,

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

For many are called, but few are chosen.”

This is the first and greatest commandment.

The greatest among you will be your servant.

Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years.

There were about four thousand who ate. Then he dismissed them.

Yet even on this point their testimony did not agree.

It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, your body is full of darkness.

It was the day of preparation and the Sabbath was beginning.

The Word was with God in the beginning.

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all.

I am the bread of life.

Jesus replied, “You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

The Father and I are one.”