For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east.
Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
I felt very puzzled every time I read the Book of Ecclesiastes; it says: “I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do...
