⁵ He answered, “Do you not know what these are?”

“No, my lord,” I replied.^(A)

¹³ He replied, “Do you not know what these are?”

“No, my lord,” I said.

¹² What we have received is not the spirit^(A) of the world,^(B) but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³ This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom^(C) but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.^{[a] 14} The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God^(D) but considers them foolishness,^(E) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵ The person with the Spirit^(F) makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,

¹³ Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?

⁹ I asked, “What are these, my lord?”

The angel^(A) who was talking with me answered, “I will show you what they are.”^(B)

³⁰ As for me, this mystery has been revealed^(A) to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.

¹⁶ “I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”^(A)