When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.”
He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.
That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick.
And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”
But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” And he rose and stood there. And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?” And after looking around at them all he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation that was not called by my name.
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