Then your handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be favorable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD your God will be with you.
In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them at that day shall be like David; and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them.
And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, To the extent that you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it unto me.
Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? For I bear you witness, that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
For this reason also we thank God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectively works also in you who believe.