And he said to his disciples. "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few;

And when he had called his twelve disciples to him, he gave them power over evil spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and infirmity.

And when he had called his twelve disciples to him, he gave them power over evil spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and infirmity.

These men, the Twelve, Jesus sent forth, after giving them the following instructions. "Do not go among the Gentiles, or enter any Samaritan town,

At that time Jesus walked through the wheat fields one Sabbath Day; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck some ears of wheat and to eat them.

And stretching his hand toward his disciples, he said,

Then John's disciples went and removed his body, and came and told Jesus.

But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."

But Jesus called his disciples to him and said: "My heart yearns over the crowd, for they have been with me now three days, and they have nothing to eat. I am not willing to send them away hungry, for fear they faint on the road."

Now the disciples of John and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came to ask him, "How is it that the disciples of John and the Pharisees are fasting, but your disciples are not?"

From there Jesus and his disciples went to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he began to question his disciples saying, "Who do people say I am?"

And when day dawned he called his disciples, and from among them he selected twelve, whom also he called Apostles missionaries.

Then his disciples began to interrupt him, saying, "What does this parable mean?"

And when now he was coming near Jerusalem, and descending the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice, and to praise God with a loud voice for the almighty works they had seen.

"You, however, are those who have stood by me in my trials.

Next day again, John was standing with two of his disciples.

Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"

So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said: "This teaching is unbelievable! Who can listen to him?"

Therefore many of his disciples drew back and no longer companied with him. So Jesus appealed to the Twelve. "You also do not wish to leave me, do you?"

he still remained where he was for two days; then after that he said to his disciples, "Let us go back again to Judea."

Then said Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to betray him,

At this some of his disciples said among themselves. "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while you shall behold me no more; and again in a little while you shall see me,' and 'because I am going to the Father'?"

"Ah," said the disciples, "now you are speaking plain language, and not using figures.