Reference: Of
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As already noted, under By, the prep, 'of' is generally used in AV for the agent, as Mt 2:18 'He was mocked of the wise men.' But there are other obsolete or archaic uses of 'of,' which should be carefully observed. Thus (1) it sometimes means from (the proper meaning of the A.S. 'of'), as Mr 11:8 'Others cut down branches of the trees,' Joh 15:15 'All things that I have heard of my Father,' Joh 16:13 'He shall not speak of himself'; (2) concerning, as Ac 5:24 'They doubted of them, whereunto this would grow,' Mt 18:13 'He rejoiceth more of that sheep than of the ninety and nine,' Joh 2:17 'The zeal of thine house'; (3) with, Song 2:5 'I am sick of love.'
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Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.
A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they were no more.
And if it should be that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.
And many [of the people] spread their garments on the road, and others [scattered a layer of] leafy branches which they had cut from the fields.
And His disciples remembered that it is written [in the Holy Scriptures], Zeal (the fervor of love) for Your house will eat Me up. [I will be consumed with jealousy for the honor of Your house.]
I do not call you servants (slaves) any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing (working out). But I have called you My friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from My Father. [I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him.]
But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].
Now when the military leader of the temple area and the chief priests heard these facts, they were much perplexed and thoroughly at a loss about them, wondering into what this might grow.