The circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ were these. After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they were united in marriage, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

But while he was contemplating this step, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to bring home your wife Mary, for she is with child through the Holy Spirit.

She will give birth to a Son, and you are to call His name JESUS for He it is who will save His People from their sins."

but did not live with her until she had given birth to a son. The child's name he called JESUS.

"A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter lamentation: It was Rachel bewailing her children, and she refused to be comforted because there were no more."

He touched her hand and the fever left her: and then she rose and waited upon Him.

While He was thus speaking, a Ruler came up and profoundly bowing said, "My daughter is just dead; but come and put your hand upon her and she will return to life."

for she said to herself, "If I but touch His cloak, I shall be cured."

When however the place was cleared of the crowd, Jesus went in, and on His taking the little girl by the hand, she rose up.

The Queen of the south will awake at the Judgement together with the present generation, and will condemn it; because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and mark! there is One greater than Solomon here.

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

So she, instigated by her mother, said, "Give me here on a dish the head of John the Baptist."

The head was brought on a dish and given to the young girl, and she took it to her mother.

But He answered her not a word. Then the disciples interposed, and begged Him, saying, "Send her away because she keeps crying behind us."

Then she came and threw herself at His feet and entreated Him. "O Sir, help me," she said.

"Be it so, Sir," she said, "for even the dogs eat the scraps which fall from their masters' tables."

"What is it you desire?" He asked. "Command," she replied, "that these my two sons may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your Kingdom."

saying to them, "Go to the village you see facing you, and as you enter it you will find a she-ass tied up and a foal with her. Untie her and bring them to me.

they brought the she-ass and the foal, and threw their outer garments on them. So He sat on them;

At the Resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? for they all married her."

that all the innocent blood shed upon earth may come on you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar.

"But immediately after those times of distress the sun will be darkened, the moon will not shed her light, the stars will fall from the firmament, and the forces which control the heavens will be disordered and disturbed.

a woman came to Him with a jar of very costly, sweet-scented ointment, which she poured over His head as He reclined at table.

But Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Why are you vexing her? For she has done a most gracious act towards me.

While he was sitting on the tribunal a message came to him from his wife. "Have nothing to do with that innocent man," she said, "for during the night I have suffered terribly in a dream through him."