So he came and took her hand and raised her up. The fever left her at once, and she began to wait upon them.

"My little daughter," he said, "is dying. I beseech you, come and lay your hands on her, that she may recover and live."

and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, but was no better; on the contrary, rather grew worse.

She had heard about Jesus, so she came in the crowd behind and touched his cloak.

"If I can touch even his clothes," she kept saying to herself, "I shall get well."

At once the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was cured of her complaint.

And instantly the little girl stood up, and began to walk, for she was twelve years old, They were at once beside themselves with utter amazement.

but she could not, for Herod was afraid of John because he knew that he was a just and holy man. So he kept him safe. When he listened to John he was much exercised, yet he found pleasure in listening to him.

at which the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced. She charmed Herod and his guests. "Ask me whatever you want," said the king to the young girl, "and I will give it to you."

He even swore to her that whatever she asked, he would give it to her, up to half his kingdom.

So she came out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptist," she replied.

So she at once hurried in to the king and made her request, "I want you," she said, "to give me, without delay, the head of John the Baptist on a charger."

And he went and beheaded John in prison, brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young girl, and she gave it to her mother.

(the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race), and again and again she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

"True, Master," she answered, "but the dogs under the table do pick up the children's crumbs."

So she went home, and found the child lying in her bed and the demon departed.

and if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

And last of all the woman too died. In the resurrection whose wife shall she be? For the seven had her as wife."

for they have all put in what they could spare out of their surplus, but she, out of her penury, has put in all that she possessed, her whole living."

"But when the tribulation is past, in those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed her light,

And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while he was dining, a woman came with an alabaster vase of very costly, pure spikenard perfume, and, breaking the vase, she poured the perfume on his head.

She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor among you, and can show them kindness whenever you wish, but me you will not always have.

She has done what she could. she has before time anointed my body for my burial.

I tell you in solemn truth that wherever the gospel is preached throughout the whole world, there what she has done shall be told in remembrance of her."

She looked at him, and said, "You too were with the Nazarene, Jesus."

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.