while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
Parallel translations
- WEB while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
- KJV By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
- BSB as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”
- NKJV by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
- NLT Stretch out your hand with healing power; may miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
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Quick answer
They pray that God would stretch out his hand to heal and to do signs and wonders through the name of Jesus. They seek confirmation of the gospel through God's power.
Overview
The believers ask God himself to act, attributing all healing and miraculous signs to his power working through the name of Jesus. Their request keeps the focus on God's glory and the spread of his word. These signs served to authenticate the apostolic message in the church's foundational era. The prayer reflects confidence that the risen Christ continues his saving work through his people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Acts 4:27“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
- Acts 3:6But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
- Acts 5:12By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
- Acts 9:40–42Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
- Acts 3:16By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
- Acts 2:22“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,
- Acts 2:43Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
- Jer 15:15Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
- Luke 9:54–56When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”
- Acts 5:15–16They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.
- Acts 9:34–35Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!” Immediately he arose.
- Acts 6:8Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
- Jer 20:11–12But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. They shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
- Deut 4:34Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Exod 6:6Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
- Luke 22:49–51When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?”
- Acts 4:10be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.
- John 4:48Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”
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