27 When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress,(A) but the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me why.”

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Nathan replied to the king, “Whatever you have in mind,(A) go ahead and do it, for the Lord is with you.”

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17 Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham(A) what I am about to do?(B)

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The Little Children and Jesus(A)

13 People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them.

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23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

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Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing
    without revealing his plan(A)
    to his servants the prophets.(B)

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14 The human spirit can endure in sickness,
    but a crushed spirit who can bear?(A)

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10 Each heart knows its own bitterness,
    and no one else can share its joy.

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10 “I loathe my very life;(A)
    therefore I will give free rein to my complaint
    and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.(B)

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12 “None of us, my lord the king(A),” said one of his officers, “but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”

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25 So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.(A)

When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There’s the Shunammite!

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10 In her deep anguish(A) Hannah prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly.

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15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.(A)

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But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him,(A) objected, “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.[a] He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag,(B) he used to help himself to what was put into it.

“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:5 Greek three hundred denarii

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

27 Just then his disciples returned(A) and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

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38 As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.

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“Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

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Suddenly Jesus met them.(A) “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.

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31 The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

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