34 Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. ^oAnd behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

Him Whom They Have Pierced

10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^qpleas for mercy, so that, when ^rthey look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^sthey shall mourn for him, as one mourns ^tfor an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

For God So Loved the World

16 “For God so loved the world,^{1 w}that he gave his only ^xSon, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

17 ^kBy faith Abraham, ^lwhen he was tested, ^moffered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,

9 ^zIn this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.