I cannot talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father.

For forty days after his death he appeared to them many times in ways that proved beyond doubt that he was alive. They saw him, and he talked with them about the Kingdom of God.

Jesus preached his message to the people, using many other parables like these; he told them as much as they could understand.

As a matter of fact, my friends, I could not talk to you as I talk to people who have the Spirit; I had to talk to you as though you belonged to this world, as children in the Christian faith.

I had to feed you milk, not solid food, because you were not ready for it. And even now you are not ready for it,

There is much we have to say about this matter, but it is hard to explain to you, because you are so slow to understand.

Anyone who has to drink milk is still a child, without any experience in the matter of right and wrong.