As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them,
Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
He answered them, “It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
On the next day a great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
I no longer call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I have heard from My Father have I made known to you.
not to all the people, but to witnesses previously chosen by God, to us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.