³ Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors—empty vessels; ^(A)do not gather just a few.

⁷ Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.

²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, ^(A)that your joy may be ^(B)full.

¹⁸ Then he said, “Take the arrows”; so he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground”; so he struck three times, and stopped. ¹⁹ And the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it! ^(A)But now you will strike Syria only three times.”

¹⁶ And he said, “Thus says the Lord: ^(A)‘Make this valley full of ^[a]ditches.’