Remember that I, the LORD, have given you a day of rest, and that is why on the sixth day I will always give you enough food for two days. Everyone is to stay where he is on the seventh day and not leave his home."

He answered, "All right, I agree. I won't destroy that town.

Elijah took the boy back downstairs to his mother and said to her, "Look, your son is alive!"

And he sent a messenger to get Elisha. Meanwhile Elisha was at home with some elders who were visiting him. Before the king's messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, "That murderer is sending someone to kill me! Now, when he gets here, shut the door and don't let him come in. The king himself will be right behind him."

"Look," they say, "here is something new!" But no, it has all happened before, long before we were born.

You can speak to him and tell him what to say. I will help both of you to speak, and I will tell you both what to do.

He will be your spokesman and speak to the people for you. Then you will be like God, telling him what to say.

'You are gods,' I said; 'all of you are children of the Most High.'

Today I give you authority over nations and kingdoms to uproot and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."

We know that what the scripture says is true forever; and God called those people gods, the people to whom his message was given.

As for me, the Father chose me and sent me into the world. How, then, can you say that I blaspheme because I said that I am the Son of God?