Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

but did not have marital relations with her until she gave birth to a son, whom he named Jesus.

"A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were gone."

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve them.

As he was saying these things, a ruler came, bowed low before him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live."

For she kept saying to herself, "If only I touch his cloak, I will be healed."

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon -- and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

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

Instructed by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter."

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. Then his disciples came and begged him, "Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us."

But she came and bowed down before him and said, "Lord, help me!"

"Yes, Lord," she replied, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.

He said to her, "What do you want?" She replied, "Permit these two sons of mine to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom."

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

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfumed oil, and she poured it on his head as he was at the table.

When Jesus learned of this, he said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a good service for me.

When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."