Voice from Heaven: This is My Son, whom I love; this is the Apple of My eye; with Him I am well pleased.

Now when He saw the crowds, He went up on a mountain (as Moses had done before Him) and He sat down (as Jewish teachers of His day usually did). His disciples gathered around Him.

You have been taught to love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

But I tell you this: love your enemies. Pray for those who torment you and persecute you—

in so doing, you become children of your Father in heaven. He, after all, loves each of us—good and evil, kind and cruel. He causes the sun to rise and shine on evil and good alike. He causes the rain to water the fields of the righteous and the fields of the sinner.

It is easy to love those who love you—even a tax collector can love those who love him.

Likewise, when you pray, do not be as hypocrites who love to pray loudly at synagogue or on street corners—their concern is to be seen by men. They have already earned their reward.

Even King Solomon, dressed in his most regal garb, was not as lovely as these lilies.

If you love your father or mother more than you love Me, then you are not worthy of Me. If you love your son or daughter more than you love Me, then you are not worthy of Me.

This is My servant, whom I have well chosen; this is the One I love, the One in whom I delight. I will place My Spirit upon Him; He will proclaim justice to all the world.

honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.

Jesus (to all three): You don’t understand what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I am going to drink? Can you be ritually washed in baptism just as I have been baptized? Zebedee Brothers: Of course!

Jesus (quoting Scripture): “Love the Eternal One your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind.”

And the second is nearly as important, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

and they love it when people recognize them in the marketplace, call them “Teacher,” and beam at them.

And many who have followed Me and claimed to love Me and sought God’s kingdom will turn away—they will abandon the faith and betray and hate one another.

The love that they had for one another will grow cold because few will obey the law. False prophets will appear, many will be taken in by them, and the only thing that will grow is wickedness. There will be no end to the increase of wickedness.