When Mary arrived where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
He quickly bowed at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. (The man was a Samaritan.)
When Simon Peter saw this, he knelt in front of Jesus and said, “Leave me, Lord! I’m a sinful person!”
A man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, arrived and quickly bowed down in front of Jesus. He begged Jesus to come to his home.
(Mary was the woman who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was sick.)
Martha told Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
But some of the Jews asked, “Couldn’t this man who gave a blind man sight keep Lazarus from dying?”
The official said to him, “Sir, come with me before my little boy dies.”
I, John, heard and saw these things. When I had heard and seen them, I bowed to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing me these things.
The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the leaders bowed and worshiped.
When the lamb had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 leaders bowed in front of him. Each held a harp and a gold bowl full of incense, the prayers of God’s holy people.