When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This really is the Prophet!”

Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.

For this is what the promise declared: “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants devoted to governing.

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set out for Spain by way of you,

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

We did this as a precaution so that no one should blame us in regard to this generous gift we are administering.

Therefore let those of us who are “perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that everyone will see your progress.

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

You ought to say instead, “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

“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.