2 Esdras 4:45-47

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴⁵ show me this also: whether more time is to come than has passed, or whether for us the greater part has gone by. ⁴⁶ For I know what has gone by, but I do not know what is to come.’

⁴⁷ And he said to me, ‘Stand at my right side, and I will show you the interpretation of a parable.’