"I have used figures of speech to tell you these things. But the time will come when I will not use figures of speech, but will speak to you plainly about the Father.

Then his disciples said to him, "Now you are speaking plainly, without using figures of speech.

Jesus was in the back of the boat, sleeping with his head on a pillow. The disciples woke him up and said, "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?"

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "God forbid it, Lord!" he said. "That must never happen to you!"

Martha was upset over all the work she had to do, so she came and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself ? Tell her to come and help me!"

He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Are you going to wash my feet, Lord?"

Peter declared, "Never at any time will you wash my feet!" "If I do not wash your feet," Jesus answered, "you will no longer be my disciple."