But the Pharisees and the Students of the Law, having rejected John's baptism, frustrated God's purpose in regard to them.)

So the Devil said to him: "If you are God's Son, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread."

The Devil next led him into Jerusalem, and, placing him on the parapet of the Temple, said: "If you are God's Son throw yourself down from here,

Once, when the people were pressing round Jesus as the listened to God's Message, he happened to be standing by the shore of the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats close to the shore.

This is the parable--The seed is God's Message.

His reply, spoken to them all, was: "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's teaching and do what it bids."

But Jesus replied: "Rather, happy are those who listen to God's Message and keep it."

Are not five sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them has escaped God's notice.

Every one, I tell you, who shall acknowledge me before his fellow men, the Son of Man, also, will acknowledge before God's angels;

But he, who disowns me before his fellow men, will be altogether disowned before God's angels.

So, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of God's angels over one outcast that repents."

Nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God's Sons.