¹⁹ The tribune took him by the hand, drew him aside privately, and asked, “What is it that you have to report to me?”

⁵¹ Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher,^[a] let me see again.”^(A)

²⁷ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he was able to stand.

²³ He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had put saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Can you see anything?”^(A)

³² It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.^(A)

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

² On the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”^(A)

³ The king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even to half of my kingdom, it shall be given you.”^(A)

⁴ Then the king said to me, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.^(A)