After that time, Elisabeth, being certain that she was to become a mother, kept herself from men's eyes for five months, saying,

To be put on the list with Mary, his future wife, who was about to become a mother.

And the Evil One said to him, If you are the Son of God, give orders to this stone to become bread.

But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

But let it not be so with you; but he who is greater, let him become like the younger; and he who is chief, like a servant.