In the days when Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the division of Abijah. His wife was also a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

Symeon also took him in his arms and blessed God, and said,

There was also a prophetess there named Hannah, the daughter of Phanuel, who belonged to the tribe of Asher. She was very old, for after her girlhood she had been married for seven years,

Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also after his baptism was praying, heaven opened

But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, for that is what I was sent to do."

He used this figure also in speaking to them: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and sews it on an old one, or if he does, he will both tear the new one and the piece from the new one will not match the old one.

To the man that strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from the man who takes away your coat, do not keep back your shirt either.

And a Levite also came to the place, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.

for I have five brothers; let him warn them so that they will not also come to this place of torture.'

So you also, when you do all you have been ordered to do, must say, 'We are good-for-nothing slaves! We have done only what we ought to have done!' "

And again he sent another slave, and they beat him also and mistreated him and sent him back empty-handed.

A dispute also arose among them, as to which one of them ought to be considered the greatest.

Two criminals were also led out to execution with him.

The soldiers also made sport of him, coming up and offering him sour wine,

They were Mary of Magdala and Joanna and Mary, James's mother; and the other women also told this to the apostles.