³⁰ Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once.

⁵ Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife,^[a] as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?^(A)

¹⁴ Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.^{(A) 15} The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up, and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.

³ So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,^[a] “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”

²³ and pleaded with him repeatedly, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.”^(A)