¹² “Let me tell you a riddle,^(A)” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast,^(B) I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.^(C)

⁴⁹ Then I said, “Sovereign Lord,^(A) they are saying of me, ‘Isn’t he just telling parables?^(B)’”^[a]