And the child grew up and became strong in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he proclaimed himself to Israel.

Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his work. He was the son, it was supposed, of Joseph, the son of Eli,

But Jesus himself would retire into the desert and pray.

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

When he saw Jesus he cried out and threw himself down before him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

Once when he was praying by himself, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"

And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me.

What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

Which of these three do you think proved himself a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?"

I tell you, even if he will not get up and give him some because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rouse himself and give him all he needs.

And he said to himself, 'What am I going to do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'

That is the way with the man who lays up money for himself, and is not rich with God."

But if the slave says to himself, 'My master is not coming back for a long time,' and begins to beat the men and women slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."

And he went and hired himself out to a resident of the country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

And he was ready to fill himself with the pods the pigs were eating, and no one would give him anything.

When he came to himself he said, 'How many hired men my father has, who have more than enough to eat, and here I am, dying of hunger!

Then the manager said to himself, 'What am I going to do, because my master is going to take my position away from me? I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

And he would not for a time, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God nor respect for men,

The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.

I tell you, it was he who went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God himself.

For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, " 'The Lord has said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand,

and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."

while the people stood looking on. Even the leading councilors jeered at him, and said, "He has saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Christ, his Chosen One!"

And as they were talking and discussing them, Jesus himself came up and went with them,

And he began with Moses and all the prophets and explained to them the passages all through the Scriptures that referred to himself.

While they were still talking of these things, he himself stood among them.