For you do not forget the loving-kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ--how that for your sakes, although he was rich, he became poor, so that you also might become rich through his poverty.

Jesus," he went on, "do not forget me when you have come to your Kingdom."

Do not forget your Leaders, the men who told you God's Message. Recall the close of their lives, and imitate their faith.

But alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces. For you do not go in yourselves, nor yet allow those who try to go in to do so.

"I have told you so," replied Jesus, "and you do not believe me. The work that I am doing in my Father's name bears testimony to me.

If I am doing it, even though you do not believe me, believe what that work shows; so that you may understand, and understand more and more clearly, that the Father is in union with me, and I with the Father."

You crave, yet do not obtain. You murder and rage, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not obtain, because you do not ask.

"I told you just now," he answered, "and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Surely you also do not want to become his disciples?"

Yet do not exult over the other branches. But, if you do exult over them, remember that you do not support the root, but that the root supports you.

You all know--But I am not writing to you because you do not know the Truth, but because you do know it, and because nothing false can come from the Truth.

And you--do not be always seeking what you can get to eat or what you can get to drink; and do not waver.

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, you did not put me to shame; but, just as every thing we had said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has also proved to be the truth.

He who comes from God listens to God's teaching; the reason why you do not listen is because you do not come from God."

For I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill-feeling, rivalry, slandering, back-biting, self-assertion, and disorder.

Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said: "Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.

"In truth I tell you," he continued, "when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but, when you have grown old, you will have to stretch out your hands, while some one else puts on your girdle, and takes you where you do not wish."

That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life here--what you can get to eat or drink; nor yet about your body-- what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

And you have not taken his Message home to your hearts, because you do not believe him whom he sent as his Messenger.

For when John came to you, walking in the path of righteousness, you did not believe him, but tax-gatherers and prostitutes did; and yet you, though you saw this, even then were not sorry, nor did you believe him.

But you do not believe me, because you are not of my flock.

"You do not understand now what I am doing," replied Jesus, "but you will learn by and by."

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

When I was a stranger, you did not take me to your homes; when I was naked, you did not clothe me; and, when I was ill and in prison, you did not visit me.'

Why, then you do not allow him to do anything further for his father or mother!

If, when I tell you earthly things, you do not believe me, how will you believe me when I tell you of heavenly things?

Whenever they betray you, do not be anxious as to how you shall speak or what you shall say, for what you shall say will be given you at the moment;

If others share in this right over you, do not we even more? Still we did not avail ourselves of this right. No, we endure anything rather than impede the progress of the Good News of the Christ.

For you have not forgotten the directions that we gave you on the authority of our Lord Jesus.

Though you have never seen him, yet you love him; though you do not even now see him, yet you believe in him, and exalt with a triumphant happiness too great for words,

"You do not know what you are asking," was Jesus' answer. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?" "Yes," they exclaimed, "we can."

And Jesus said to his disciples: "That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about the life here--what you can get to eat; nor yet about your body--what you can get to wear.

"You are utterly mistaken. You do not consider that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation should be destroyed."

These men asked Jesus a question. They said: "Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you do not take any account of a man's position, but teach the Way of God honestly;

"You do not know what you are asking," Jesus said to them. "Can you drink the cup that I am to drink? or receive the baptism that I am to receive?"

You say 'I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,' and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked!

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

But, if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my teaching?"

But, as I have said already, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe in me.

How is it that you do not see that I was not speaking about bread? Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my Message.

But, as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

You do not know the meaning of this parable!" he went on; "Then how will you understand all the other parables?

See that you are on the watch; for you do not know when the time will be.

John's answer was--"I baptize with water, but among you stands one whom you do not know;

The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth to the Spirit."

In truth I tell you that we speak of what we know, and state what we have seen; and yet you do not accept our statements.

Give to him who asks of you; and, from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.

But, if you do not forgive others their offences, not even your Father will forgive your offences.

This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,

And yet you do not know what your life will be like to-morrow! For you are but a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.

And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you.