³ In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.

²⁶ It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

³⁰ And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:

¹ And he went again into the Synagogue; and there was a man there whose hand was dead.

² And they were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath day, so that they might have something against him.

³ And he said to the man, Get up and come forward.

⁴ And he said to them, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to put to death? But they said nothing.

²² And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

²⁵ But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

⁷ Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

⁴ Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.

³⁴ Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

¹⁷ A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.