What father among you, if your<n id="1" /> son asks for<n id="2" /> a fish, will give him a snake<n id="3" /> instead of a fish?

Jesus answered, &#8220;I am not possessed by a demon,<n id="1" /> but I honor my Father &#8211; and yet<n id="2" /> you dishonor me.

If you have known me, you will know my Father too.<n id="1" /> And from now on you do know him and have seen him.&#8221;p>

Then<n id="1" /> I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate<n id="2" /> to be with you forever &#8211;

So Joseph sent a message<n id="1" /> and invited<n id="2" /> his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people<n id="3" /> in all.

so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.p>

<i>and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughtersi>,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the All-Powerful Lord.<n id="2" />p>

so that<n id="1" /> through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

&#8220;<b><i>Honor your father and motheri>,b>&#8221;<n id="1" /> which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, &#8216;I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.&#8217;&#8221;

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions<n id="1" /> of angels right now?

Immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.p>

Jesus<n id="1" /> asked his father, &#8220;How long has this been happening to him?&#8221; And he said, &#8220;From childhood.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The soldiers<n id="1" /> forced<n id="2" /> a passerby to carry his cross,<n id="3" /> Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country<n id="4" /> (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus).

Jesus<n id="1" /> said to another, &#8220;Follow me.&#8221; But he replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Lord, first let me go and bury my father.&#8221;

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, &#8220;Father, I have sinned<n id="1" /> against heaven<n id="2" /> and against<n id="3" /> you.

You know the commandments: &#8216;<b><i>Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and motheri>b>.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.<n id="1" />

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes<n id="1" /> me will live because of me.

You people<n id="1" /> are doing the deeds of your father.&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">Then<n id="2" /> they said to Jesus,<n id="3" /> &#8220;We were not born as a result of immorality!<n id="4" /> We have only one Father, God himself.&#8221;