'Able' in the Bible

and there doth come to him a leper, calling on him, and kneeling to him, and saying to him -- 'If thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me.'

And he, having gone forth, began to proclaim much, and to spread abroad the thing, so that no more he was able openly to enter into the city, but he was without in desert places, and they were coming unto him from every quarter.

Since they were not able to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where He was. And when they had broken through, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one -- God?'

And Jesus said to them, 'Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast;

Then He went home, and the crowd gathered again so that they were not even able to eat.

And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, 'How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom will not be able to stand.

If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

And if Satan rises against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand and his end has come.

No one is able the vessels of the strong man -- having entered into his house -- to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil.

and whenever it may be sown, it cometh up, and doth become greater than any of the herbs, and doth make great branches, so that under its shade the fowls of the heaven are able to rest.'

And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.

He lived in the tombs. No one was able to restrain him anymore—even with chains—

because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,

So He was not able to do any miracles there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

King Herod heard about this, because Jesus' name had become well-known. He was saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead! That's why he is able to do these miracles."

and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

and he saith to them, 'So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?

And from thence having risen, he went away to the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and having entered into the house, he wished none to know, and he was not able to be hid,

And his disciples answered him, 'Whence shall any one be able these here to feed with bread in a wilderness?'

Then again he put his hands on his eyes; and looking hard, he was able to see, and saw all things clearly.

and his garments became glittering, white exceedingly, as snow, so as a fuller upon the earth is not able to whiten them.

and wherever it doth seize him, it doth tear him, and he foameth, and gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples that they may cast it out, and they were not able.'

The spirit has often thrown him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us!"

Jesus told him, ""If you are able?' Everything is possible for the person who believes!"

And he having come into the house, his disciples were questioning him by himself -- 'Why were we not able to cast it forth?'

And he said to them, 'This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.'

And Jesus said, 'Forbid him not, for there is no one who shall do a mighty work in my name, and shall be able readily to speak evil of me:

And they were astonished beyond measure, saying unto themselves, 'And who is able to be saved?'

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”

“We are able,” they told Him.Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.

And Jesus said to him, What would you have me do to you? And the blind man said, Master, make me able to see.

And Jesus said to him, Go on your way; your faith has made you well. And straight away he was able to see, and went after him in the way.

for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;

She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.

And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, 'Simon, thou dost sleep! thou wast not able to watch one hour!

And in like manner also the chief priests, mocking with one another, with the scribes, said, 'Others he saved; himself he is not able to save.