¹⁹ Then the commander took him by the hand, went aside, and asked privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”

⁵¹ So Jesus answered and said to him, “What do you want Me to do for you?”

The blind man said to Him, ^[a]“Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.”

²⁷ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.

²³ So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town. And when ^(A)He had spit on his eyes and put His hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything.

³² not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that ^(A)I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, ^[a]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.

¹² And the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the citadel, and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? Now ^(A)what is your petition? It shall be granted to you. Or what is your further request? It shall be done.”

² And on the second day, ^(A)at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!”

³ And the king said to her, “What do you wish, Queen Esther? What is your request? ^(A)It shall be given to you—up to half the kingdom!”

⁴ Then the king said to me, “What do you request?”

So I ^(A)prayed to the God of heaven.