Everyone who heard about it kept thinking what had happened and asked, "What will this child become?" because it was obvious that the hand of the Lord was with him.

His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean up his threshing floor. He'll gather the grain into his barn, but he'll burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire."

So Jesus reached out his hand and touched him, saying, "I do want to. Be clean!" Instantly the leprosy left him.

Once, on another Sabbath, Jesus went into a synagogue and began teaching. A man whose right hand was paralyzed was there.

But Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he told the man with the paralyzed hand, "Get up, and stand in the middle of the synagogue." So he got up and stood there.

He looked around at all of them and then told the man, "Hold out your hand." The man did so, and his hand was restored to health.

But he took her hand and called out, "Young lady, get up!"

Jesus told him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

For example, when you go with your opponent in front of a ruler, do your best to settle with him on the way there. Otherwise, you will be dragged in front of the judge, and the judge will hand you over to an officer, and the officer will throw you into prison.

So they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended to be honest men in order to trap him in what he would say. They wanted to hand him over to the jurisdiction of the governor,

Because David himself in the book of Psalms says, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

"But before all these things take place, people will arrest you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

Yet look! The hand of the man who is betraying me is with me on the table!

While I was with you day after day in the Temple, you didn't lay a hand on me. But this is your hour, when darkness reigns!"

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God."