[The first seventeen verses of Matthew consists of Jesus' family tree

[[@Bible:Matt 16]]Chapter 16

[[@Bible:Matt 16:5]]5. When the students went across with him, they forgot to take bread. Jesus said to them, "Now let me warn you to stay away from the yeast of the Protestants and Catholics." They tried to figure that one out themselves, and decided he had said it because they had no bread. When Jesus found out about it, he said, "Why was it, baby-faiths, that you were hashing over the fact that you have no bread? Haven’t you caught on yet? Don’t you remember the five boxes of crackers of the five thousand and how many basketsful of leftovers you had? Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many basketsful you had left over? Well, why can’t you get it through your heads that I wasn’t speaking to you about bread? Rather, I told you to stay away from the yeast of the Protestants and Catholics." Then it soaked in that he had not warned of the bread yeast, but of the teachings of the Protestants and Catholics.

[[@Bible:Matt 16:13]]13. When Jesus came into the region of Augusta, he asked his students, "Who do people think the son of man is?"
            They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, others say Elijah, and still others, Jeremiah or one of the famous preachers."
            "But you, who do you think I am?" he asked.
            Simon the Rock spoke right up and said, "You are the Leader, the Living God’s Man."
            "You are beautiful, Simon Johnson!" exclaimed Jesus. "This isn’t human reasoning, but divine revelation. And I want to tell you, you are Rock, and on this rock⁵   I will build my fellowship, and the doors of death will not hold out against it. I will give to you the keys of the God Movement, and whatever you bind in the physical realm shall have been bound in the spiritual realm, and whatever you loose in the physical realm shall have been loosed in the spiritual realm." Then he strongly warned them to tell no one that he was the Leader.

[[@Bible:Matt 16:21]]21. From then on Leader Jesus began to make clear to his students that he had to go to Atlanta and to go through terrible things at the hands of the leading church people-to be killed, and three days later to be raised! But Rock collared him and began to take him to task. "Not on your life, sir," be said, "Be dadblamed if this will ever happen to you." Jesus whirled on Rock and said, "Get away from here, you devil; you are gumming up the works for me, because you’re not following God’s ideas but human reasoning I" Jesus then said to his students, "If a man wants to walk my way, be must abandon self, accept his lynching, and share my life. For the person who aims to save his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life for my cause will find it. What’s a man’s advantage if in getting the whole world he loses his life? Indeed, what shall a man trade in his life for?

[[@Bible:Matt 16:27]]27. "The Leader and his spiritual band will shortly come, with the full backing of his Father, and then he will assign every man on the basis of his activity. I give you my word, some of those standing right here won’t die before they see the Leader heading his Movement."

[[@Bible:Matt 17]]Chapter 17

[[@Bible:Matt 17:9]]9. As they made their way down the mountain, Jesus warned them, "Don’t tell a soul about the vision until the son of man is raised from the dead." Then the students asked, "Well, how come the professors say that Elijah has to come first?" He replied, "Elijah indeed does come and get everything in order; in fact, Elijah has already come, and nobody recognized him, so they treated him like anybody else. They’ll do that and worse to the son of man." The students then realized that he was referring to John the Baptizer.

[[@Bible:Matt 17:14]]14. As they approached the crowd, a man came running up and said, "Sir, please do something about my son, because he is crazy and is in bad shape. Many times he falls into the fire and frequently into the water. I brought him to your students, but they couldn’t heal him."
            Jesus answered, "You bankrupt, misguided people! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I go to bat for you? Bring him here to me." Then Jesus chewed out the demon and it left, and the boy was completely well from that time on.
            When Jesus was alone, the students approached him and asked, "How come we couldn’t get that demon out?"
            "Because of your baby faith," he said. "It’s an absolute fact that if you have faith like a mustard seed, you will say to this hill, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will be moved. Nothing will be too big for you.

[[@Bible:Matt 17:22]]22. While they were touring Georgia, Jesus said to them, "The son of man will soon be turned in to the authorities, and they’ll kill him-and on the third day he’ll be raised." This nearly tore their hearts out.

[[@Bible:Matt 17:24]]24. During their stay in Savannah, some church fundraisers came to Rock and asked, "Does your leader make donations to the church?" Rock replied, "Yeah." When Rock went inside, Jesus took it up with him. "What do you think, Simon? Where does the government get its funds? From taxes on itself or from non-government sources?" Rock said, "Why, from non-government sources." Jesus answered, "So the government, then, is tax-exempt!⁶  But, to keep from upsetting them, go down to the lake and throw your line in, open the mouth of the first fish you catch, and you’ll find a ten-dollar bill. Take that and make a donation for both you and me."