¹⁸ Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be ^[a]what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be ^[b]what is already permitted in heaven.

¹⁹ Again I tell you, if two of you on earth agree (harmonize together, make a symphony together) about whatever [anything and ^[c]everything] they may ask, it will come to pass and be done for them by My Father in heaven.

²⁰ For wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers) in (into) My name, there I Am in the midst of them.^(A)