‘I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.’
—Psalm 16:7

‘Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.’
—Psalm 119:24

‘Without counsel purposes are disappointed:  but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.’
—Proverbs 15:22

‘Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them’
—Ecclesiastes 12:1

‘Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.’
—2 Corinthians 7:12

‘And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.  And the women took the child, and nursed it.’
—Exodus 2:9

‘And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them’
—Luke 24:33

‘And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
‘And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
‘And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?’
—Luke 24:30–32

‘And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.’
—Luke 24:27

‘And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
‘And he said unto them, What things?  And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people’
—Luke 24:18, 19

‘And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.’
—Luke 24:15

‘Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.’
—Romans 12:2 (J. B. Phillips’ translation