'Hands' in the Bible

He told Jesus, "Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, because it is written, "God will put his angels in charge of you,' and, "With their hands they will hold you up, so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.'"

"Why do your disciples disregard the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands when they eat."

These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands doesn't make a person unclean."

But I tell you that Elijah has already come, yet people did not recognize him and treated him just as they pleased. In the same way, the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands."

While they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus told them, "The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands.

"So if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life injured or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

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.

When he had laid his hands on them, he went on from there.

Then the king told his servants, "Tie his hands and feet, and throw him into the darkness outside!' In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth,

Then he came back to the disciples and told them, "You might as well keep on sleeping and resting. Look! The time is near for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was about to break out instead. So he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood. Attend to that yourselves."

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."

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were utterly amazed. "Where did this man get all these things?" they asked. "What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What great miracles are being done by his hands!

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

They noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them.

(The Pharisees and indeed all the Jewish people don't eat unless they wash their hands properly, following the tradition of their elders.

So the Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with unclean hands."

Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. He spit into his eyes, placed his hands on him, and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again, and he saw clearly. His sight was restored, and he saw everything perfectly, even from a distance.

because he was teaching his disciples, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into human hands. They will kill him, but after being dead for three days he will be raised."

So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell, to the fire that cannot be put out.

Then after he had hugged the children, he tenderly blessed them as he laid his hands on them.

He came back a third time. "Are you still sleeping and resting?" he asked. "Enough of that! The time has come. Look! The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

"We ourselves heard him say, "I will destroy this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another one not made by human hands.'"

and they'll pick up snakes with their hands.Even if they drink any deadly poison, it won't hurt them, and they'll place their hands on the sick, and they'll recover."

With their hands they will hold you up, so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.'"

When the sun was setting, everyone who had any friends suffering from various diseases brought them to him. He placed his hands on each of them and began healing them.

One time Jesus was walking through some grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

"Listen carefully to these words. The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands."

After careful consideration, Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of bandits. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

"Of these three men, who do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the bandits?"

Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.

Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit." After he said this, he breathed his last.

Look at my hands and my feet, because it's really me. Touch me and look at me, because a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones as you see that I have."

After he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Later, he led them out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

The Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hands.

Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them, "Untie him, and let him go."

Simon Peter told him, "Lord, not just my feet, but my hands and my head as well!"

Then Annas sent him, with his hands tied, to Caiaphas the high priest.

After saying this, he showed them his hands and his side, and when they saw the Lord, the disciples were overjoyed.

So the other disciples kept telling him, "We've seen the Lord!" But he told them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I'll never believe!"

Then he told Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Take your hand, and put it into my side. Stop doubting, but believe."

Jesus told him, "Feed my sheep. "Truly, I tell you emphatically, when you were young, you would fasten your belt and go wherever you liked. But when you get old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten your belt and take you where you don't want to go."

After he was arrested according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified this very man and killed him using the hands of lawless men.

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

"At that time they even made a calf to be their idol, offered a sacrifice to it, and delighted in what they had made with their hands.

However, the Most High does not live in buildings made by human hands. As the prophet says,

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

Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money

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."

So Ananias left and went to that house. He laid his hands on Saul and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were traveling, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

Then they fasted and prayed, laid their hands on them, and let them go.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He doesn't live in shrines made by human hands,

When Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in foreign languages and to prophesy.

You also see and hear that, not only in Ephesus, but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has won over and taken away a large crowd by telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.

You yourselves know that I worked with my own hands to support myself and those who were with me.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, and tied his own feet and hands with it. Then he said, "The Holy Spirit says, "This is how the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will tie up the man who owns this belt. Then they will hand him over to the gentiles.'"

On the third day they threw the ship's equipment overboard with their own hands.

The father of Publius happened to be sick in bed with fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, prayed, and healed him by placing his hands on him.

But about Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people."

We wear ourselves out from working with our own hands. When insulted, we bless. When persecuted, we endure.

Then the end will come, when after he has done away with every ruler and every authority and power, the Messiah hands over the kingdom to God the Father.

We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

truthful speech, and divine power; through the weapons of righteousness in the right and left hands;

So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth were called "the uncircumcised" by those who called themselves "the circumcised." They underwent physical circumcision done by human hands.

The thief must no longer steal but must work hard and do what is good with his own hands, so that he might earn something to give to the needy.

In union with him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without human hands by stripping off the corrupt nature by the circumcision performed by the Messiah.

Also, make it your goal to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you,

Therefore, I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without being angry or argumentative.

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy when the elders laid their hands on you.

For this reason, I am reminding you to fan into flames the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands.

And, "In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

But when the Messiah came as a high priest of the good things that have come, he went through the greater and more perfect tent that was not made by human hands and that is not a part of this creation.

For the Messiah did not go into a sanctuary made by human hands that is merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear now in God's presence on our behalf.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

What existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we observed and touched with our own hands this is the Word of life!

After these things, I looked, and there was a crowd so large that no one was able to count it! They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. They were standing in front of the throne and the lamb and were wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

The second beast forces all people important and unimportant, rich and poor, free and slaves to be marked on their right hands or on their foreheads,

Then I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire. Those who had conquered the beast, its image, and the number of its name were standing on the sea of glass holding God's harps in their hands.

Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. They came back to life and ruled with the Messiah for a thousand years.