The birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. After his mother, Mary, had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.

"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her is by the Holy Spirit; and she will bear a son, and you are to call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose and waited upon him.

As he was saying these words to them, a ruler came up and knelt before him, saying. "My daughter has just died; but come, put your hand upon her, and she will live."

For she said to herself, "If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured."

"Leave the room, for the little girl is not dead, she is sleeping." And they began laughing at him.

"The Queen of the South will rise in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and lo! a greater than Solomon is here!

and so pleased Herod that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked for.

Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."

But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."

"True, Lord," she said, "but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."

"What is it you wish?" he said. She answered, "Command that these my two sons may sit upon your right hand and your left in your kingdom."

"In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be? They all had her."

"But immediately after the tribulation of those days, "The sun will be darkened, The moon will not shed her light, The stars will fall from the sky, And the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

But when Jesus understood it he said to them. "Why are you annoying the woman? This is a beautiful deed she has done for me;

"In pouring this perfume on my body, she was preparing me for my burial.

"In solemn truth I tell you that wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, what she has done shall be told about, as her memorial."