Now a woman who for twelve years had suffered from haemorrhage,

until the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and threw herself at His feet, and told Him all the truth.

Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit heard of Him, and came and flung herself at His feet.

She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation: and again and again she begged Him to expel the demon from her daughter.

He replied, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman, commits adultery against the first wife;

and if a woman puts away her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

And so did the rest of the seven, all dying childless. Finally the woman also died.

For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels are in Heaven.

And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!

Now when He was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while He was at table, there came a woman with a jar of pure, sweet-scented ointment very costly: she broke the jar and poured the ointment over His head.

There were also a party of women looking on from a distance; among them being both Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of James the Little and of Joses, and Salome--

all of whom in the Galilaean days had habitually been with Him and cared for Him, as well as many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with Him.