Matthew 8:3

8:3 He stretched out his hand and touched ¹  him saying, “I am willing. Be clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Matthew 13:20

13:20 The ²  seed sown on rocky ground ³  is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

Matthew 14:31

14:31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

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¹ sn Touched. This touch would have rendered Jesus ceremonially unclean (Lev 14:46; also Mishnah, m. Nega’im 3.1; 11.1; 12.1; 13.6-12).

² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

³ tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure.