Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;

For I have come to set--'a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies will be the members of his own household.' read more. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And the man who does not take his cross and follow in my steps is not worthy of me.

At that same time Jesus uttered the words: "I thank thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that, though thou has hidden these things from the wise and learned, thou hast revealed them to the child-like!

"I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven at all.

"This is what the Lord has done for me," she said, "now that he has deigned to take away the reproach under which I have been living."

I am no longer fit to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants."'

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.