just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.

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

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.”

At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,

and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

And they began making fun of him. But he put them all outside and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”