¶ From that time many of his disciples went away from him, and companied no more with him.
When the young man heard that saying, he went away mourning. For he had great possessions.
Iesus said unto him: No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh back, is apt to the kingdom of God.
Iesus was called also and his disciples unto the marriage.
Many of his disciples, when they had heard this, said: this is an hard saying. Who can abide the hearing of it?
But there are some of you that believe not. For Iesus knew from the beginning, which they were that believed not. And who should betray him.
His brethren therefore said unto him: Get thyself hence and go into jewry that thy disciples may see thy works that thou doest.
¶ Then said Iesus to those jewes which believed on him: If ye continue in my saying, then are ye my very disciples:
This thou knowest how that all they which are in Asia be turned from me. Of which sort are Phigellos and Hermogenes.
¶ For Demas hath left me, and hath loved this present world, and is departed into Thessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galatia, and Titus unto Dalmacea.
But the just shall live by faith. And if he withdraw himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But that fortuned that it might appear, that they were not of us.