Prologue: ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening’ (1 Sam. 3.9)
1 ‘Where are you?’ (Gen. 3.8–20)
2 ‘Where is Abel, your brother?’ (Gen. 4.1–16)
3 ‘Where is Sarah, your wife?’ Welcoming the strangers (Gen. 18.1–16)
Three absences
4 ‘What is your name?’ (Gen. 32.23–33)
5 ‘And if they ask “What is His name?”, what shall I say?’ (Exod. 3.1–14)
What name?
6 ‘What is it for you here, Elijah?’ (1 Kgs 19.8–18)
7 ‘I am young. I do not know how to speak’ (Jer. 1.4–10)
8 ‘Is it good for you to be angry?’ (Jon. 4.1–13)
Four Prophets
9 ‘Have you not seen him whom my heart loves?’ (Song 1.12–2.7)
We see his face
10 ‘How will this happen?’ (Lk. 1.26–38)
11 ‘Child, why have you treated us like this?’ (Lk. 2.41–52)
12 ‘How can you, being a Jew, ask from me “to drink”, while I am a Samaritan woman?’ (Jn. 4.4–42)
13 ‘Who do you say that I am?’ (Mt. 16.13–28)
Who is he? Who am I?
14 ‘Whose wife will she be?’ (Mk. 12.18–28)
15 ‘What is truth?’ (Jn. 18.28–19.16)
Questioning Him
16 ‘What are these words that you are hurling at each other while walking?’ (Lk. 24.13–35)
17 ‘Do you love me more than these?’ (Jn. 21.1–22)
18 ‘I opposed him to his face’ (Gal. 2.1–14)
Epilogue: ‘For our conversation is in heaven’ (Phil. 3.20)
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