'Hands' in the Bible

Many signs and wonders were being done among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they would all meet in Solomon’s Colonnade.

They had them stand before the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.

They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.

However, the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:

Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

When Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

saying, “Give me this power too, so that anyone I lay hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and placing his hands on him so he can regain his sight.”

So Ananias left and entered the house. Then he placed his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road you were traveling, has sent me so that you can regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.

The God who made the world and everything in it—He is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in shrines made by hands.

Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other languages and to prophesy.

God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands,

You yourselves know that these hands have provided for my needs and for those who were with me.

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’”

But Lysias the commander came and took him from our hands with great force,

On the third day, they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.

Publius’s father was in bed suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, and praying and laying his hands on him, he healed him.

After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them: “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.