'Lay' in the Bible

While Jesus was telling them these things, an official came up and fell down before him. "My daughter has just died," he said. "But come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

Then some little children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

They tie up burdens that are heavy and unbearable and lay them on people's shoulders, but they refuse to lift a finger to remove them.

Since the groom was late, all of them became sleepy and lay down.

and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."

He couldn't perform a miracle there except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

Some people brought him a deaf man who also had a speech impediment. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

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!"

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again.

No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

"Lord, why can't I follow you now?" Peter asked him. "I would lay down my life for you!"

Jesus answered him, "Would you lay down your life for me? I tell you emphatically, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times."

Now a man who had been crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at what was called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from those who were going into the Temple.

and lay it at the apostles' feet. Then it was distributed to anyone who needed it.

and said, "Give me this power too, so that when I lay my hands on someone, he will receive the Holy Spirit."

He has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so he would see again."

For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you or harm you, because I have many people in this city."

Meanwhile, the sailors had begun trying to escape from the ship. They lowered the lifeboat into the sea and pretended that they were going to lay out the anchors from the bow.

After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus the Messiah.