In these there used to lie a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed.

This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

Then his neighbors and people who had formerly seen him begging, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

This was the figure Jesus used in speaking to them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.

He went across the Jordan again to the place where John used to baptize at first, and there he stayed.

But he did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and when he had charge of the purse he used to take what was put in it.

I tell you, when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle and go where you pleased, but when you grow old, you will stretch our your hands and someone else will put a girdle on you and take you where you have no wish to go"