Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me."

But these things I have spoken to you, so that when the time comes, you may remember them, that I told you. But these things I did not say to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

And when they were present with him, he said to them: "You know from the first day which I arrived in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

[ 3:20] In the sweat of your face shall you eat your bread until you return to the ground out of which you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent.

A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed; so also he who borrows grain in harvest.

Desires kill the sluggard, for his hands do not choose to do anything.

A foolish man is like a farm, and a senseless man is like a vineyard.

Afterwards I reflected, I looked that I might receive instruction.

But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your need like a swift courier.

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,