¹⁸ Therefore God led the people around by way of the wilderness to the ^[a]Red Sea; and the sons of Israel went up ^(A)in battle formation from the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ When he had seen ^(A)the vision, ^(B)we immediately sought to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to ^(C)preach the gospel to them.

³³ And with many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to ^[a]understand it;

¹² For though ^[a]by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you ^(A)the ^[b](B)elementary principles of the ^(C)actual words of God, and you have come to need ^(D)milk and not solid food. ¹³ For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an ^(E)infant. ¹⁴ But solid food is for ^(F)the mature, who because of practice have their senses ^(G)trained to ^(H)distinguish between good and evil.