There was a woman who had suffered terribly from severe bleeding for twelve years,

No indeed! We bring trouble on ourselves, as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.

We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life.

I have been evil from the day I was born; from the time I was conceived, I have been sinful.

Among them was a woman who had suffered from severe bleeding for twelve years; she had spent all she had on doctors, but no one had been able to cure her.

Now here is this descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept in bonds for eighteen years; should she not be released on the Sabbath?"

A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been sick for such a long time; so he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been born blind.

His parents answered, "We know that he is our son, and we know that he was born blind.

But we do not know how it is that he is now able to see, nor do we know who cured him of his blindness. Ask him; he is old enough, and he can answer for himself !"

There at the Beautiful Gate, as it was called, was a man who had been lame all his life. Every day he was carried to the gate to beg for money from the people who were going into the Temple.

The man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was over forty years old.

There he met a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had not been able to get out of bed for eight years.

In Lystra there was a crippled man who had been lame from birth and had never been able to walk.