'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.

and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken it up, they let down the couch 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;

And come together again doth a multitude, so that they are not able even to eat bread;

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

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 similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,

who had his dwelling in the tombs, and not even with chains was any one able to bind him,

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,

and he was not able there any mighty work to do, except on a few infirm people having put hands he did heal them;

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?'

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.'

and many times also it cast him into fire, and into water, that it might destroy him; but if thou art able to do anything, help us, having compassion on us.'

And Jesus said to him, 'If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'

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?'

and Jesus said to them, 'Ye have not known what ye ask; are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with -- to be baptized?'

And they said to him, 'We are able;' and Jesus said to them, 'Of the cup indeed that I drink of, ye shall drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with, ye shall be baptized;

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;

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.