¹⁶ The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, ^(A)bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

¹⁷ And ^(A)these signs will accompany those who believe: ^(B)in my name they will cast out demons; ^(C)they will speak in new tongues; ^18 (D)they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; ^(E)they will lay their hands ^(F)on the sick, and they will recover.”

^3 (A)And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. ⁴ And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, ^(B)they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

¹⁶ Therefore, ^(A)confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, ^(B)that you may be healed. ^(C)The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.^[a]

⁹ to another ^(A)faith by the same Spirit, to another ^(B)gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

³⁰ while ^(A)you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed ^(B)through the name of your ^(C)holy servant Jesus.”

¹² “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(A)whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I ^(B)am going to the Father.

¹¹ When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he ^(A)welcomed them and ^(B)spoke to them of the kingdom of God and ^(C)cured those who had need of healing.

Jesus Heals a Paralytic

¹⁷ On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and ^(A)teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And ^(B)the power of the Lord was with him to heal.^[a]