 We'll start with verse 14. Mordecai is talking with Esther. If you remain completely silent at this time, Esther, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place. Mordecai knew the prophets. They'll never be destroyed as a nation or a people, but you and your father's house will perish. We will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to this kingdom for such a time as this.