²⁰ Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,”^(A) he said, “and then I will come with you.”

“Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?”

¹³ Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind^(A) and straining toward what is ahead,