But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachariah; for your prayer is heard, and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

And behold, you shall conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

for he has looked upon the lowly condition of his handmaid. For, behold, from this time, all generations shall call me blessed;

I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to repentance.

But why call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I command?

They are like children sitting in the market-place, who call to one another, and say, We have played on the pipe for you, and you have not danced; we have sung mournful songs for you, and you have not lamented.

And they came to him, and awoke him, saying: Master, master, we perish. But he arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there was a calm.

Then he said also to him that had invited him: "When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and a recompense be made you.

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;

And he said to him, Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him in health.

But as soon as this your son has come, Who has eaten up your estate with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.

And Jesus said to him: Why do you call me good? None is good but one, that is God.