So He went to her, and taking her hand He raised her to her feet: the fever left her, and she began to wait upon them.

and besought Him with many entreaties. "My little daughter," he said, "is at the point of death: I pray you come and lay your hands upon her, that she may recover and live."

and had undergone many different treatments under a number of doctors and had spent all she had without receiving benefit but on the contrary growing worse,

heard of Jesus. And she came in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak;

for she said, "If I but touch His clothes, I shall be cured."

In a moment the flow of her blood ceased, and she felt in herself that her complaint was cured.

Instantly the little girl rises to her feet and begins to walk (for she was twelve years old)

She at once went out and said to her mother: "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptizer," she replied.

The girl immediately came in, in haste, to the King and made her request. "My desire is," she said, "that you will give me, here and now, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist."

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

"True, Sir," she replied, "and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."

So she went home, and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

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

At the Resurrection whose wife will she be? For they all seven married her."

So He called His disciples to Him and said, "In solemn truth I tell you that this widow, poor as she is, has thrown in more than all the other contributors to the Treasury;

for they have all contributed out of what they could well spare, but she out of her need has thrown in all she possessed--all she had to live on."

"At that time, however, after that distress, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed her light;

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.

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone: why are you troubling her? She has done a most gracious act towards me.

What she could she did: she has perfumed my body in preparation for my burial.

And I solemnly tell you that wherever in the whole world the Good News shall be proclaimed, this which she has done shall also be told in remembrance of her."

and seeing Peter warming himself she looked at him and said, "You also were with Jesus, the Nazarene."

She went and brought the tidings to those who had been with Him, as they were mourning and weeping.

But they, when they were told that He was alive and that she had seen Him, could not believe it.