<p class="bodytext">I rejoiced greatly because I have found some<n id="1" /> of your children living according to the truth,<n id="2" /> just as the Father commanded us.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry"><b><i>hei>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>will rulei>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>them with an iron rodi>b><n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,<n id="4" />p>

You people<n id="1" /> are from<n id="2" /> your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires.<n id="3" /> He<n id="4" /> was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth,<n id="5" /> because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies,<n id="6" /> he speaks according to his own nature,<n id="7" /> because he is a liar and the father of lies.<n id="8" />

But when he heard that Archelaus<n id="1" /> was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod,<n id="2" /> he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.

Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat<n id="1" /> with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. Then<n id="2" /> he called them.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Not everyone who says to me, &#8216;Lord, Lord,&#8217;<n id="1" /> will enter into the kingdom of heaven &#8211; only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

All things have been handed over to me by my Father.<n id="1" /> No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides<n id="2" /> to reveal him.

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then <i>he will reward each person according to what he has donei>.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

Again, I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> if two of you on earth agree about whatever you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.<n id="2" />

He told them, &#8220;You will drink my cup,<n id="1" /> but to sit at my right and at my left is not mine to give. Rather, it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.&#8221;p>

Then the king will say to those on his right, &#8216;Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

I<n id="1" /> tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit<n id="2" /> of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father&#8217;s kingdom.&#8221;

For whoever is ashamed<n id="1" /> of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person<n id="2" /> when he comes in his glory and in the glory<n id="3" /> of the Father and of the holy angels.

And look, I am sending you<n id="1" /> what my Father promised.<n id="2" /> But stay in the city<n id="3" /> until you have been clothed with power<n id="4" /> from on high.&#8221;p>

Surely you&#8217;re not greater than our ancestor<n id="1" /> Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

I have come in my Father&#8217;s name, and you do not accept<n id="1" /> me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept<n id="2" /> him.

For this is the will of my Father &#8211; for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up<n id="1" /> at the last day.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down<n id="1" /> of my own free will.<n id="2" /> I have the authority<n id="3" /> to lay it down, and I have the authority<n id="4" /> to take it back again. This commandment<n id="5" /> I received from my Father.&#8221;p>

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I told you and you do not believe. The deeds<n id="2" /> I do in my Father&#8217;s name testify about me.