As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve [disciples] aside by themselves, and said to them on the way,
The Lord considered: Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
He said to them in reply, “Because knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted.
When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
On the next day, when the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.