While your hand is stretched out to do works of mercy; so that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretching out his hand answered in his defence:

But when they had stretched him out with the leather straps [in preparation for the whip], Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it legal for you to whip a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned [without a trial]?”