And he rose up straightway, and, having taken up his couch, went out before them all, so that all were amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it thus.

And he said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, he and those with him,

for those days shall be distress such as there has not been the like since the beginning of creation which God created, until now, and never shall be;