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Jesus was asleep when they reached his abode, but they awakened him:

Jesus was asleep when they reached his abode, but they awakened him:

   

   

*"'''How is it that, while we who have so long lived with you are searching in the hills for you, you prefer others before us and choose Andrew and Simon as your first associates in the new kingdom'''?"  

*"How is it that, while we who have so long lived with you are searching in the hills for you, you prefer others before us and choose Andrew and Simon as your first associates in the new kingdom?"  

Jesus answered them:

Jesus answered them:

*"Be '''calm''' in your hearts and ask yourselves, `who directed that you should search for the Son of Man when he was about his Father's business?'"  

*"Be calm in your hearts and ask yourselves, `who directed that you should search for the Son of Man when he was about his Father's business?'"  

   

   

After they had recited the details of their long search in the hills, Jesus said:

After they had recited the details of their long search in the hills, Jesus said:

And Jesus, laying a hand on the shoulder of each of them, said:

And Jesus, laying a hand on the shoulder of each of them, said:

*"My brethren, you were already with me in the spirit of the kingdom, even before these others made request to be received. You, my brethren, have no need to make request for entrance into the kingdom. You have been with me in the kingdom from the beginning. Before men, others may take precedence over you, but in my heart did I also number you in the councils of the kingdom, even before you thought to make this request of me. And even so might you have been first before men had you not been absent engaged in a well-intentioned but self-appointed task of seeking for one who was not lost. In the coming kingdom, be not mindful of those things which foster your anxiety, but rather, at all times concern yourselves only with doing the will of the Father who is in heaven."

*"My brethren, you were already with me in the spirit of the kingdom, even before these others made request to be received. You, my brethren, have no need to make request for entrance into the kingdom. You have been with me in the kingdom from the beginning. Before men, others may take precedence over you, but in my heart did I also number you in the councils of the kingdom, even before you thought to make this request of me. And even so might you have been first before men had you not been absent engaged in a well-intentioned but self-appointed task of seeking for one who was not lost. '''In the coming kingdom, be not mindful of those things which foster your anxiety, but rather, at all times concern yourselves only with doing the will of the Father who is in heaven'''."