November 07, 2005

The Kingdom of God -Sayings


Here are 5 sayings that seem to bear on the kingdom of
heaven:

49, Jesus said: Blessed are the solitary and the elect,
for you shall find the kingdom; for you came forth
thence, and shall go there again.

57, Jesus said: The kingdom of the Father is like a man
who had [good] seed. His enemy came by night, he sowed a weed among the good seed. The man did not allow them to pull up the weed. He said to them: Lest perhaps you go to pull up the weed, and pull up the wheat with it. For on the day of harvest the weeds will be manifest; they will be pulled up and burned.

98, Jesus said: The kingdom of the Father is like a man
who wanted to kill a great man. He drew the sword in
his house and drove it into the wall, that he might
know that his hand would be strong. Then he slew the
great man.

107, Jesus said: The kingdom is like a shepherd who had hundred sheep. One of them, the biggest, went astray. He left the ninety-nine and sought after the one till he found it. When he had laboured, he said to the sheep: I love thee more than the ninety-nine.

113 His disciples said to him: On what day will the
kingdom come? : It cometh not with observation. They will not say: Lo, here! or: Lo, there! But the kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.

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