¹⁰ Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel ^(A)and yet you do not understand these things?

⁷ Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ^(A)‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. ⁸ And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. ^9 (B)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, ^(C)to do what is evil in his sight? ^(D)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and ^(E)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

¹¹ And before them stood ^(A)seventy men of ^(B)the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of ^(C)Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and ^(D)the smoke of the cloud of incense went up. ¹² Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing ^(E)in the dark, each ^(F)in his room of pictures? For they say, ^(G)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’”