¹² And Samson said, Now I have a hard question for you: if you are able to give me the answer before the seven days of the feast are over, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing;

² Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,

¹ Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions.

²² To every one of them he gave three changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred bits of silver and five changes of clothing.

²² And he said, All is well: but my master has sent me, saying, Even now, two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim; will you give me a talent of silver and two changes of clothing for them?

⁵ So the king of Aram said, Go then; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went, taking with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

⁶ To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

¹² For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.

²⁹ His disciples said, Now you are talking clearly and not in veiled language.

⁷ And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,

⁵¹ And a certain young man went after him, with only a linen cloth about his body; and they put their hands on him;

⁵² But he got away unclothed, without the linen cloth.

²⁸ And they took off his clothing, and put on him a red robe.

³⁴ All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

¹³ For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

¹⁹ Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

⁴⁹ Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?

⁴ I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.

⁸ So Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath and from as far as the river of Egypt.

²⁷ Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

²⁸ And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife.