Gehazi’s Greed

¹⁵ Then he returned to the man of God ^[a]with all his company, and came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold now, ^(A)I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; so please ^(B)accept a ^[b]gift from your servant now.”

¹² Then all the people went away to eat, drink, ^(A)to send portions, and to ^[a]celebrate a great feast, ^(B)because they understood the words which had been made known to them.

³⁵ Jesus said to them, “^(A)I am the bread of life; the one who comes to Me will not be hungry, and the one who believes in Me ^(B)will never be thirsty.

¹² For now we ^(A)see in a mirror ^[a]dimly, but then ^(B)face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also ^(C)have been fully known.

⁹ But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be ^(A)known by God, ^(B)how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless ^[a](C)elementary principles, to which you want to be enslaved all over again?