Now there were some shepherds in the same neighborhood, living in the open fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

Simon answered, "We have toiled all night and caught nothing, but since you tell me to do so, I will set the nets again."

Now it was in those days that He went up on the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

Then He said to them: "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves;

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul is to be demanded of you. Then who will have all that you have prepared?'

I tell you, two men will be in the same bed that night; one will be taken, the other left.