Now these were the circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ. Mary, his mother, was engaged to Joseph, but before they were married it was found that she was about to become a mother through the influence of the holy Spirit.

But while he was thinking of doing this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not fear to take Mary, your wife, to your home, for it is through the influence of the holy Spirit that she is to become a mother.

She will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for it is he who is to save his people from their sins."

But he did not live with her as a husband until she had had a son, and he named the child Jesus.

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife on any ground, except unfaithfulness, makes her commit adultery, and anyone who marries her after she is divorced commits adultery.

And he touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and waited on him.

Just as he said this to them, an official came up and bowing low before him said to him, "My daughter has just died. But come! Lay your hand on her and she will come to life!"

For she said to herself, "If I can just touch his cloak, I will get well."

he said, "You must go away, for the girl is not dead; she is asleep." And they laughed at him.

The queen of the south will rise with this age at the judgment and condemn it, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

and swore that he would give her anything she asked for.

But she, at her mother's instigation, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter!"

And his head was brought back on a platter and given to the girl, and she took it to her mother.

But he would not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps screaming after us."

And she came and fell down before him, and said, "Help me, sir!"

But she said, "O yes, sir! For even dogs eat the scraps that fall from their masters' table!"

He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Give orders that these two sons of mine sit one at your right and one at your left, when you are king!"

At the resurrection which one's wife will she be? For they all married her."

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

"But immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the forces of the sky will shake.

But Jesus observed this and said to them, "Why do you bother the woman? It is a fine thing that she has done to me.

In pouring this perfume on me she has done something to prepare me for burial.

I tell you, wherever this good news is preached all over the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."