"The Son of Man must suffer many things
and be rejected by the elders and chief priests
and scribes, and be killed
and be raised up on the third day."
Luke 9:22
Many people would like to attain union with God but they cannot bear the contradictions he sends them. They hate the sickness which strikes them, or the poverty they suffer, or the insults they receive. Since they cannot be resigned, they never succeed in reaching total union with God. -- St Alphonsus de Liguori
Know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true God. We are in union with the one who is true, his Son Jesus the Messiah, who is the true God and eternal life. -- 1 John 5:20
“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him."
John 13:31
