³ This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:

⁹ Then what did you go out to see? A prophet?^(A) Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

² Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely^(A) to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath.^(B)

³ Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand up in front of everyone.”

⁴ As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:

²³ John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness,^(A) ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”^[a](B)