The hand of God the goal. After the first half, the game was still tied. Maradona was beginning to unbalance the match, and when the sixth minute of the second half came, one of the most controversial moves in the history of the World Cup came: Maradona took the ball out of the box and with his left leg passed it to his teammate Jorge Valdano, who tried to take it among several English defenders, but the ball was intercepted and thrown back and forth, in his eagerness to clear, by defender Steve Hodge. Because of the inertia of the play, Maradona would have
Hand of God (art) and Crossing of the Red Sea", "Elijah Reviving the Child of the Widow of Zarepheth", and "Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones". In several examples the hand includes the forearm as well. In the Beth Alpha synagogue, the hand of God appears on the "Binding of Isaac" panel on the northern entryway of the synagogue's nave mosaic floor. The hand of God appearing in the Beth Alpha "Binding of Isaac" mosaic panel is depicted as a disembodied hand emerging from a fiery ball of smoke, "directing the drama and its outcome" according to Meyer Schapiro. The hand of God