by stretching out thy hand for healing; and that signs and miracles may be performed by the name of thy holy child Jesus.

THEN Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretching out his hand, began his defence:

And found there a certain man named AEneas, during six years stretched on a bed, who was paralytic.

NOW at that time Herod the king stretched forth his hand to treat cruelly certain persons belonging to the church.