And He said to all, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross day by day, and so be my follower.

Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your souls be weighed down with self-indulgence and drunkenness or the anxieties of this life, and that day come upon you, suddenly, like a falling trap;

But *I* have prayed for *you* that your faith may not fail, and you, when at last you have come back to your true self, must strengthen your brethren."

See my hands and my feet--it is my very self. Feel me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see I have."