And Jesus, ascending to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside in private and said to them:
And the Lord said: "How could I hide what I am about to do from Abraham,
Responding, he said to them: "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but it has not been given to them.
Then Jesus went into parts of Caesarea Philippi. And he questioned his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that the Son of man is?"
Then, on the next day, the great crowd that had come to the feast day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
not to all the people, but to the witnesses preordained by God, to those of us who ate and drank with him after he rose again from the dead.