Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.

She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus.

“A voice was heard in Ramah,
Weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
And she refused to be comforted,
Because they were no more.”

He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and waited on Him.

While He was saying these things to them, a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”

for she was saying to herself, “If I only touch His garment, I will get well.”

The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

Having been prompted by her mother, she *said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”

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

But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, “Send her away, because she keeps shouting at us.”

But she came and began to bow down before Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”

But she said, “Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She *said to Him, “Command that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right and one on Your left.”

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”

so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table.

But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you bother the woman? For she has done a good deed to Me.

For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.