¹² "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.

³³ With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

³⁰ I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

³ To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.

¹ Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

² I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

¹¹ About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

¹² For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

¹³ For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

¹⁴ But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.