Then Naaman went down, and washed him seven times in the Jordan, by the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored as the flesh of a little child, and he was cleansed.
And when the king of Israel had read the letters, he rent his clothes, and said, Whether I am God, that may slay and quicken, for this king sent to me, that I cure a man of his leprosy? Perceive ye, and see, that he seeketh occasions against me.
Mine hand made all these things, and all these things be made, saith the Lord; but to whom shall I behold, no but to a poor man and contrite in spirit, and greatly dreading my words?
and I shall feed the beast of slaying. For this thing, ye poor men of the flock, hear. And I took to me two staffs; one I called Fairness, and the tother I called Little Cord; and I fed the flock.
And when Jesus had seen the people running together, he menaced the unclean spirit, and said to him, Thou deaf and dumb spirit, I command thee, go out from him, and enter no more into him.
The Spirit of the Lord is [up] on me, for which thing he anointed me; he sent me to preach [or evangelize] to poor men, to heal contrite men in heart, and to preach remission to prisoners [or captives], and sight to blind men, and to deliver broken men into remission;
And he came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know, that thou art come from God a master [or for of God thou hast come a master]; for no man may do these signs, that thou doest, but God be with him.
But I have more witnessing than John, for the works that my Father gave to me to perform them [or the works that my Father gave me that I perform them], those works that I do bear wit-nessing of me, that the Father sent me.
Ye men of Israel, hear ye these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God before you by virtues, and wonders, and tokens, which God did by him in the middle of you, as ye know,
Hear ye, my most dearworthy brethren, whether God chose not poor men in this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, that God promised to men that love him?