He first ¹  found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” ²  (which is translated Christ). ³ 

Jesus told the servants, ¹  “Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.

Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” ¹  and they did.

So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, ¹  “What I have told you from the beginning.

I have told you these things ¹  so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

Jesus replied, ¹  “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for ²  me, let these men ³  go.” ⁴ 

Jesus replied, ¹  “Are you saying this on your own initiative, ²  or have others told you about me?”

So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder ¹  and said, “You must ²  hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men ³  a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her, “Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?” ⁴ 

And the Lord God ¹  said, “Who told you that you were naked? ²  Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” ³ 

So Abram left, ¹  just as the Lord had told him to do, ²  and Lot went with him. (Now ³  Abram was 75 years old ⁴  when he departed from Haran.)

So Sarah became pregnant ¹  and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported. ¹ 

So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, ¹  my son! Just obey me! ²  Go and get them for me!”

When Jacob explained ¹  to Rachel that he was a relative of her father ²  and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

I have ¹  the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful ²  that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’ ³ 

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, ¹  “but Israel, ²  because you have fought ³  with God and with men and have prevailed.”

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. ¹  Purify yourselves and change your clothes. ² 

They told him, “We both had dreams, ¹  but there is no one to interpret them.” Joseph responded, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell them ²  to me.”

They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,