¹¹ As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

^29 (A)The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. ^(B)The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, ^(C)rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, ^(A)“Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? ^(B)The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and ^(C)then they will fast.

⁶ When they came, he looked on ^(A)Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.”

²³ Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, ^(A)he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.