He said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver taken from you, and that I heard you utter a curse about—here, I have the silver with me. I took it. So now I return it to you.”

Then his mother said, “My son, you are blessed by the Lord!”

A king’s heart is like streams of water in the Lord’s hand:
He directs it wherever He chooses.

I, Yahweh, watch over it;
I water it regularly.
I guard it night and day
so that no one disturbs it.

So He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him.

“Listen,” He said to them, “when you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters.