I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields.

Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?”

He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

Then ¹  the experts in the law ²  and the chief priests wanted to arrest ³  him that very hour, because they realized he had told this parable against them. But ⁴  they were afraid of the people.

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, ¹  so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, ²  and turn to me, ³  and I would heal them.” ⁴ 

I have not written to you that ¹  you do not know the truth, but that ²  you do know it, and that ³  no lie is of the truth.

We have come to know love by this: ¹  that Jesus ²  laid down ³  his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now ¹  that if ²  Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, ³  it would be all right with you.

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, ¹  the palace ²  he had built,

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

I would know with what words ¹  he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes? ¹ 

Though the Lord is exalted, he takes note of the lowly, and recognizes the proud from far away.

You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.

Leave the presence of a foolish person, ¹  or ²  you will not understand ³  wise counsel. ⁴ 

I have concluded ¹  that there is nothing better for people ²  than ³  to be happy and to enjoy themselves ⁴  as long as they live,

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. ¹  Who can understand it?

Then I perceived that the glory of the God of Israel was there, as in the vision I had seen earlier in the valley.