Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."

He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.