³ Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few.

⁷ Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.

²⁴ Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive,^(A) and your joy will be complete.^(B)

¹⁸ Then he said, “Take the arrows,” and the king took them. Elisha told him, “Strike the ground.” He struck it three times and stopped. ¹⁹ The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times.”^(A)

¹⁶ and he said, “This is what the Lord says: I will fill this valley with pools of water.