Why is this privilege mine, to have the mother of my Lord come to me?

When His parents saw Him, they were utterly amazed, and yet His mother said to Him, "My child, why did you treat us so? Just see how your father and I, in agony of mind, have been searching for you!"

So the people went out to see what had taken place, and they went to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, with his clothes on and in his right mind; and they were frightened.

Then he answered, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind, and your neighbor as you do yourself."

for a friend of mine has just come to my house on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him to eat.'

But a curse on you Pharisees, because you pay tithes on mint, rue, and every tiny garden herb, but neglect justice and the love of God! These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have neglected the former.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Whoever does not persevere in carrying his own cross and thus following after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

"Just so, no one of you who does not forsake everything that he has, can be a disciple of mine.

because this son of mine was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found!' So they began to celebrate.

But bring those enemies of mine here who did not want me to become king over them and slay them in my presence!'"

Then He said to them, "O men sluggish in mind and slow in heart to believe all that the prophets have said!