Mark 10:32-34

They were on their way up to Jerusalem,
with Jesus leading the way,
and the disciples were astonished,
while those who followed were afraid.
Again He took the Twelve aside
and told them what was going to happen to Him.
"We are going up to Jerusalem," He said,
"and the Son of Man will be betrayed
to the chief priests and the teachers of the law.
They will condemn Him to death
and will hand Him over to the Gentiles,
who will mock Him and spit on Him,
flog Him and kill Him.
Three days later He will rise."
(Mark 10:32-34)

AC 10127 - it is one or the other

AC 10127 [4]
. . .so far as a person is purified from evils and falsities,
so far good and truth are implanted and conjoined by the Lord.

. . . for the Lord is present with every person
with the good of love, because He loves all,
and from love wills to conjoin them with Himself,
which is effected through
the good of love and the truth of faith;
but the evils and their falsities
which a person appropriates to himself by a life of evil,
stand in the way, and hinder the influx.

Matthew 19:16-19

Now a man came up to Jesus and asked,
"Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?"
"Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied.
"There is only One who is good.
If you want to enter life,
obey the commandments."
"Which ones?"
the man inquired.
Jesus replied, "'Do not murder,
do not commit adultery,
do not steal,
do not give false testimony,
honor your father and mother,'
and 'love your neighbor as yourself.'"
(Matthew 19:16-19)

AC 10125 - the Soul of the Lord

AC 10125 [2-4]
The Divine Itself which is the Being of all things
was in the Lord alone,
for He was conceived of Jehovah;
and every person has from his father
the being of his life, which is called his soul.
From this it is evident
that the Divine good of the Divine love
was in the Human of the Lord
as the soul of a father is in a son.
And as with person nothing lives but his soul,
for the body without the soul does not live,
and because everything of the body
is produced from the soul, thus after its image,
in order that the soul may be in a state
that is adapted and accommodated to its functions
in the ultimates of order, which are in the world;
it consequently follows
that the Being itself in the Human of the Lord
was Jehovah, which is the Divine good of the Divine love.
And that which is the Being of life
makes everything that comes forth from It
after Its own likeness;
and so the Lord,
from the Divine Itself which was in Him,
thus which was His,
made also His Human the Divine good of the Divine love.

Moreover, it is said in the Athanasian Creed,
which contains the faith received throughout the Christian world,
"As the body and the soul is one man,
so the Divine and the Human in the Lord is one Christ."
He therefore who is acquainted with
the union of the soul in the body,
and the image of the former in the latter,
may in some measure know
the union of the Divine and the Human in the Lord,
and the image of the one in the other;
and from this he might know
that the Divine which is called the Father,
and the Human which is called the Son,
were one,
and the one in the other,
that is, the Father in Him and He in the Father;
according to the Lord's words in John 10:30; 14:10, 11.
But as at this day it is not known what the soul is,
and scarcely that it is from the father,
and that the body is its image,
and that the two are one as are the prior and the posterior,
or as being and that which comes forth from it,
therefore man has separated
the Divine from the Human in the Lord,
and has distinguished them into two natures,
and from this has conceived no other idea
of the Human of the Lord than as of the human of a man;
when yet the soul of a man is finite from his father,
and has evil in it by inheritance;
whereas the soul of the Lord, being from Jehovah,
was infinite,
and was nothing else than the Divine good of the Divine love,
and consequently after glorification His Human
was not like the human of a man.

For this reason
the Lord took up into heaven all His Human glorified,
that is, made Divine from Himself,
and left nothing of it in the sepulchre,
otherwise than is the case with man.
That the Lord glorified His very body even to its ultimates
which are the bones and the flesh,
the Lord also manifested to His disciples, saying,
"Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself.
Feel Me and see,
for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see Me have" (Luke 24:39);
and yet He entered through doors that were shut,
and after He had manifested Himself
became invisible (John 20:19; Luke 24:31).

Luke 18:9-14

To some who were confident of their own righteousness
and looked down on everybody else,
Jesus told this parable:
"Two men went up to the temple to pray,
one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself:
'God, I thank you that I am not like other men -
robbers, evildoers, adulterers - or even like this tax collector.
I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
"But the tax collector stood at a distance.
He would not even look up to heaven,
but beat his breast and said,
'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
"I tell you that this man, rather than the other,
went home justified before God.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
(Luke 18:9-14)

AC 10122, 10123 - the Lord is the source of good and truth

AC 10122 [2]
. . . all things with a person which are from the Lord
bear relation to good and truth,
but all things which are from a person himself
bear relation to evil and falsity.

AC 10123
. . . it is the Divine of the Lord
which makes heaven and the church,
because the Lord dwells there in His own,
and not in a person's own.

Luke 17:11-19

Now on His way to Jerusalem,
Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee.
As He was going into a village,
ten men who had leprosy met Him.
They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice,
"Jesus, Master, have pity on us!"
When He saw them, He said,
"Go, show yourselves to the priests."
And as they went, they were cleansed.
One of them, when he was healed,
came back, praising God in a loud voice.
He threw himself at Jesus' feed and thanked Him -
and he was a Samaritan.
Jesus asked, "Were not all ten cleansed?
Where are the other nine?
Was no on found to return and give praise to God
except this foreigner?"
Then He said to him,
"Rise and go; your faith has made you well."
(Luke 17:11-19)

AC 10109 - the communication of good; AC 10110 - what is good?

AC 10109 [2]
. . . so long as a person is in evils
and in the falsities derived from them,
it is impossible for any good to be appropriated to him,
for evil ascends from hell,
and good descends from heaven;
and were hell is, there heaven cannot be,
because they are diametrically opposite.
. . . that which is of the will belongs to the person's love,
and from this to his life,
because that which a person wills he loves and also calls good,
and moreover when it is done,
he feels it as good.
 . . . the appropriation of good with a person is meant only
the capability to receive good from the Lord,
which capability he is endowed with by regeneration;
consequently the good with a person is not the person's,
but is the Lord's with him,
and the person is held in it
so far as he suffers himself to be withheld from evils.

AC 10110 [4]
When we speak of good,
charity toward the neighbor is meant, and love to the Lord,
for all that which is of love and charity is good.

appropriation - communication

"The time came when the beggar died
and the angels carried him to Abraham's side.
The rich man also died and was buried.
In hell, where he was in torment,
he looked up and saw Abraham far away,
with Lazarus by his side.
So he called tom,
'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus
to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,
because I am in agony in this fire.''
"But Abraham replied,
'Son, remember that in your lifetime
you received your good things,
while Lazarus received bad things,
but now he is comforted here
and you are in agony.
And besides all this,
between us and you a great chasm has been fixed,
so that those who want to go from here to you cannot,
nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'"
(Luke 16:22-26)

AC 10105 - truths from the Word

AC 10105 [2,3]
. . . truths from the Word
are to be fitted together into doctrine so as to serve for use,
which is done by those who are in enlightenment from the Lord;
and those who are in enlightenment when they read the Word,
are in the affection of truth for the sake of truth,
and for the sake of the good of life,
and not those who seek it
for the sake of self-glory, reputation, or profit, as ends.

. . .  "to boil in water" denotes to reduce truths into doctrine,
and thus prepare them for the use of life . . .

"'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me,
and everything I have is yours.
But we had to celebrate and be glad,
because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again;
he was lost and is found.
(Luke 31-32)

AC 10083 - the first of all

AC 10083 [5-6]
Since the "waving upon the palms of Aaron"
is signified endowment of life
through the acknowledgment of the Lord,
and that all things are from Him . . ..
It was often said by the Lord, when the sick were healed,
that they should "have faith,"
and that it would be done to them "according to their faith".
The reason was that
the first of all is to acknowledge
that the Lord is the Savior of the world,
for without this acknowledgment
no one can receive anything of truth and good from heaven,
consequently no faith;
and because this is the first and most essential of all,
therefore in order that the Lord might be acknowledged
when He came into the world,
in healing the sick He questioned them concerning their faith,
and those who had faith were healed.
The faith was that He was the Son of God
who was to come into the world,
and that He had power to heal and to save.
Moreover, all the healings of diseases by the Lord,
when He was in the world,
signified healings of the spiritual life,
consequently the things that belong to salvation.

Because the acknowledgment of the Lord
is the first of all things of spiritual life,
and the most essential thing of the church,
and because without it
no one can receive from heaven anything
of the truth of faith and the good of love,
therefore the Lord often says
that he who "believes in Him has eternal life,"
that he who "does not believe has not life";
but He also teaches at the same time
that those have faith in Him
who "live according to His commandments,"
so that the consequent life may enter into the faith.

Luke 14:1-6

One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat
in the house of a prominent Pharisee,
He was being carefully watched.
There in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law,
"Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?"
But they remained silent.
So taking hold of the man,
He healed him and sent him away.
Then He asked them,
"If one of you has a son or an ox
that falls into a well on the Sabbath day,
will you not immediately pull him out?"
And they had nothing to say.
(Luke 14:1-6)

AC 10076 - forms

AC 10076 [2]
. . . good or evil forms the will,
and truth or falsity forms the understanding.

Luke 13:22-27

Then Jesus went through the towns and villages,
teaching as He made His way to Jerusalem.
Someone asked Him,
"Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?"
He said to them,
"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door,
because many, I tell you,
will try to enter and will not be able to.
Once the owner of the house
gets up and closes the door,
you will stand out side knocking and pleading,
'Sir, open the door for us.'
"But he will answer,
'I don't know you or where you come from.'
"Then you will say,
'We ate and drank with You,
and You taught in our streets.'
"But He will reply,
'I don't know you or where you come from.
Away from Me, all you evildoers!'
(Luke 13:22-27)

AC 10067 - choosing

AC 10067 [9-10]
Man takes in truths from hearing,
through the sense of hearing;
and from reading through the sight;
and stores them up in his memory.
These truths relate either to the civil state,
or to the moral state,
and are called memory-knowledges.
The love of a person
which is of his will through the understanding
looks into these things in the memory,
and from it chooses those
which are in agreement with the love;
and those which it chooses,
it summons to itself,
and conjoins with itself,
and by means of them strengthens itself from day to day.
Truths thus vivified by love make the person's understanding,
and the goods themselves which are of the love make his will.
The goods of love are also like fires there,
and truths in the circumferences round about,
vivified by the love,
are like the light from this fire.
By degrees, as the truths are kindled by this fire,
there is kindled in them a desire to conjoin themselves reciprocally.
From this comes a reciprocal conjunction, which is permanent.

From all this it is evident
that the good of love is really that which conjoins,
and not the truth of faith,
except insofar as this has the good of love within it.

John 11:7-15

Then He said to His disciples,
"Let us go back to Judea."
"But Rabbi," they said,
"a short while ago the Jews tried to stone You,
and yet You are going back there?"
Jesus answered,
"Are there not twelve hours of daylight?
A man who walks by day will not stumble,
for he sees by this world's light.
It is when he walks by night,
that he stumbles, for he has no light."
After He had said this, He went on to tell them,
"Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep;
but I am going there to wake him up."
His disciples replied,
"Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better"
Jesus had been speaking of His death,
but His disciples thought He meant natural sleep.
So then He told them plainly,
"Lazarus is dead,
and for your sake I am glad I was not there,
so that you may believe.
But let us go to him."
(John 11:7-15)

John 10:37-42

"Do not believe Me unless I do what My Father does.
But if I do it, even though you do not believe Me,
believe the miracles,
that you may know and understand
that the Father is in Me,
and I in the Father."
Again they tried to seize Him,
but He escaped their grasp.
Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place
where John had been baptizing in the early days.
Here He stayed and many people came to Him.
They said,
"Though John never performed a miraculous sign,
all that John said about this Man was true."
And in that place many believed in Jesus.
(John 10:37-42)

AC 10057 - the circle

AC 10057 [2-5]
There is an influx from the spiritual world into the natural,
thus through the internal person into his external,
but not the reverse;
for the internal person is in heaven,
but the external in the world. 

As this circle is the circle of a person's life,
therefore during a person's regeneration . . ..
Therefore during a person's regeneration
the truths which are to be of faith
are insinuated through the hearing and sight,
and these truths
are implanted in the memory of his natural person.
From this memory they are withdrawn into the thought
that belongs to the understanding,
and those which are loved become of the will;
and insofar as they become of the will,
they become of the life,
for the will of a person is his very life;
and insofar as they become of the life,
they become of his affection,
thus of charity in the will
and of faith in the understanding.
Afterward the person speaks and acts from this life,
which is the life of charity and of faith;
from charity which is of the will
goes forth the speech of the mouth
and also the act of the body,
both by way of the understanding,
thus by the way of faith.
From all this it is evident
that the circle of the regeneration of a person
is like the circle of his life in general;
and that it is in like manner instituted in the will
by means of an influx out of heaven from the Lord.

Consequently, it is also plain that there are two states
in the person who is being regenerated,
the first when the truths of faith
are being implanted and conjoined 
with the good of charity,
the second when he speaks from the good of charity
by means of the truths of faith,
and acts according to these;
thus that the first state is from the world
through the natural person into the spiritual,
thus into heaven;
and the second is from heaven
through the spiritual person into the natural,
thus into the world.
As said above, the spiritual or internal person is in heaven,
and the natural or external person is in the world.
This circle is the circle of the regeneration of a person,
and consequently is the circle of his spiritual life.

From what has been said, some idea may be formed
of the glorification of the Lord's Human;
for as the Lord glorified His Human,
so He regenerates a person,
and therefore, as already often said,
the regeneration of a person
is an image of the glorification of the Lord.
From this it is evident that the first state of His glorification
was to make His Human Divine truth,
and to unite it with the Divine good that was in Him;
and that the second state was to act
from Divine good through Divine truth.
For heaven and the church are founded
through the Divine truth
that proceeds from the Lord's Divine good;
and through this
all are regenerated who are in the church.

John 9:1-3

As He went along, He saw a man blind from birth.
His disciples asked Him,
"Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,
that he was born blind?"
"Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus,
"but this happened
so that the work of God might be displayed in his life."
(John 9:1-3)