Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.

and pleaded with him repeatedly, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."

They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

they will pick up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them;[note: see Wallace, Exegetical Syntax, 403?6, whether promise or prediction] they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."