So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the command of the man of God. Then his skin was restored and became like the skin of a small boy, and he was clean.
Matthew 11:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed (by healing) and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have good news (the Gospel) preached to them. [Isa. 35:5, 6; 61:1.] American Standard Version (1901) the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them. Common English Bible Those who were blind are able to see. Those who were crippled are walking. People with skin diseases are cleansed. Those who were deaf now hear. Those who were dead are raised up. The poor have good news proclaimed to them. Catholic Public Domain Version The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor are evangelized. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them. |
So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the command of the man of God. Then his skin was restored and became like the skin of a small boy, and he was clean.
When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, ‘Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a man of his skin disease? Recognise that he is only picking a fight with me.’
The Lord said to him, ‘Who placed a mouth on humans? Who makes a person mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
On that day the deaf will hear the words of a document, and out of a deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
The humble will have joy after joy in the Lord, and the poor people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Bring out a people who are blind, yet have eyes, and are deaf, yet have ears.
My hand made all these things, and so they all came into being. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will look favourably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and trembles at my word.
So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter, the oppressed of the flock. I took two staffs, calling one Favour and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you received, freely give.
Then he told the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ So he stretched it out, and it was restored, as good as the other.
The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus warned them sternly, ‘Be sure that no one finds out.’
They were extremely astonished and said, ‘He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.’
When Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, ‘You mute and deaf spirit, I command you: Come out of him and never enter him again.’
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed,
‘I did tell you and you don’t believe,’ Jesus answered them. ‘The works that I do in my Father’s name testify about me.
But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father.’
While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing.
This man came to him at night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.’
‘But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about me that the Father has sent me.
‘Go,’ he told him, ‘wash in the pool of Siloam’ (which means ‘Sent’). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.
‘Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know.
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?