"The Holy Spirit shall come upon you," said the angel, "and the power of the most High shall overshadow you, and therefore the holy offspring which is born, shall be called the son of God.

"For unto you born this day in there is born in David's town a Saviour, who is the Anointed Lord.

"I tell you that among all that are born of women not one is greater than John; yet he that is little in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

It happened while he was saying this, that a certain woman out of the crowd shouted to him, saying, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breast that you have sucked."

Then he spoke to them in a parable. "The ground of a certain rich man bore heavy crops.

"but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.'