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And after they had partaken of food, Andrew, speaking to Jesus, said:  

And after they had partaken of food, Andrew, speaking to Jesus, said:  

*"Master, my brethren do not comprehend your deep sayings. We have come fully to believe that you are the Son of God, and now we hear these strange words about leaving us, about dying. We do not understand your teaching. '''Are you speaking to us in parables?''' We pray you to speak to us directly and in undisguised form."  

*"Master, my brethren do not comprehend your deep sayings. We have come fully to believe that you are the Son of God, and now we hear these strange words about leaving us, about dying. We do not understand your teaching. Are you speaking to us in parables? We pray you to speak to us directly and in undisguised form."  

In answer to Andrew, Jesus said:

In answer to Andrew, Jesus said:

*"My brethren, it is because you have confessed that I am the Son of God that I am constrained to begin to unfold to you the '''truth''' about the end of the bestowal of the Son of Man on earth. You insist on clinging to the belief that I am the Messiah, and you will not abandon the idea that the Messiah must sit upon a throne in Jerusalem. Wherefore do I persist in telling you that the Son of Man must presently go to Jerusalem, suffer many things, be rejected by the scribes, the elders, and the chief priests, and after all this be killed and raised from the dead. And I speak '''not a parable''' to you. I speak the truth to you that you may be prepared for these events when they suddenly come upon us."   

*"My brethren, it is because you have confessed that I am the Son of God that I am constrained to begin to unfold to you the '''truth''' about the end of the bestowal of the Son of Man on earth. You insist on clinging to the belief that I am the Messiah, and you will not abandon the idea that the Messiah must sit upon a throne in Jerusalem. Wherefore do I persist in telling you that the Son of Man must presently go to Jerusalem, suffer many things, be '''rejected''' by the scribes, the elders, and the chief priests, and after all this be killed and raised from the dead. And I speak not a parable to you. I speak the truth to you that you may be prepared for these events when they suddenly come upon us."   

And while he was yet speaking, Simon Peter, rushing impetuously toward him, laid his hand upon the Master's shoulder and said:  

And while he was yet speaking, Simon Peter, rushing impetuously toward him, laid his hand upon the Master's shoulder and said: