³¹ When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her,^(A) noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

¹⁹ and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.^(A)

¹⁵ The person with the Spirit^(A) makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,

¹⁶ David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying^(A) in sackcloth^[a] on the ground. ¹⁷ The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused,^(B) and he would not eat any food with them.^(C)

¹⁸ On the seventh day the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”

³⁵ All his sons and daughters came to comfort him,^(A) but he refused to be comforted.^(B) “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son^(C) in the grave.^(D)” So his father wept for him.