¹⁴ He went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” He answered, “I am.”

¹² I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need.^{(A) 13} I can do all things through him who strengthens me.^(B)

²⁷ in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food,^[a] cold and naked.^(A)

¹¹ To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are naked and beaten and homeless,^{(A) 12} and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;^(B)

³⁴ Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.^(A)

⁶ Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

⁴ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”^(A)