When Jesus turned and noticed them following him, he asked them, ‘What are you looking for? ’ They said to him, ‘Rabbi’ (which means ‘Teacher’), ‘where are you staying? ’
Now this is what the Lord says – the one who created you, Jacob, and the one who formed you, Israel – ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are mine.
This man came to him at night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.’
I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. A sound! My love was knocking! Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with droplets of the night.
I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held on to him and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother’s house – to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
Once again the Lord called, ‘Samuel! ’ Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, ‘Here I am; you called me.’ ‘I didn’t call, my son,’ he replied. ‘Go back and lie down.’