Jesus’ Teaching On Tolerance And Sincerity
As the days before his being taken up to Heaven were growing few, Jesus set his face resolutely in the direction of Jerusalem; and ho sent on messengers in advance. On their way, they went into a Samaritan village to make preparations for him. The people there did not welcome him, because his face was set in the direction of Jerusalem; and when James and John saw this, they said:
“Master, do you wish us to call for fire to come down from the sky and consume them?”
But Jesus turned and rebuked them; and so they found their way to a different village.
Here, while they were still on their way, a man said to Jesus:
“I will follow you wherever you go.”
“Foxes have holes,” replied Jesus, “and wild birds have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
To another man Jesus said: “Follow me.”
“Give me leave,” the man replied, “to go and bury my father first.”
But Jesus said:
“Leave dead men to bury their own dead; but go yourself and carry far and wide the news of the Kingdom of God.”
“Master,” said another, “I will follow you; but give me leave to say good-bye to my family first.”
But Jesus answered:
“No one who looks back, after putting his hand to the plough, is fitted for the Kingdom of God.”
—Luke.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
—Abraham Lincoln.
He that wrongs another, wrongs himself more.
—Alfred Tennyson.