For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He will drink no wine or strong drink, but he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth,

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David,

and she gave a great cry, and said, "You are the most favored of women, And blessed is your child!

Her neighbors and relatives heard of the great mercy the Lord had shown her, and they came and congratulated her.

The angel said to them, "Do not be frightened, for I bring you good news of a great joy that is to be felt by all the people,

But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land,

Once as the crowd was pressing about him to hear God's message, he happened to be standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,

Yet the news about him spread more and more, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

And as they could find no way to get him in, on account of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his mat through the tiles, among the people in front of Jesus.

Then Levi gave a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great throng of tax-collectors and others who were at table with them.

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

A Roman captain had a slave whom he thought a great deal of, and the slave was sick and at the point of death.

When Jesus heard this, he was astonished at him, and turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such faith as this even in Israel!"

Soon afterward he happened to go to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great throng of people were with him.

As he came up to the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out; he was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A crowd of the townspeople was with her.

And they were all overcome with awe, and they praised God, and said, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has not forgotten his people!"

When a great throng was gathering and people were coming to him from one town after another, he said in his figurative way,

His mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him, on account of the crowd.

When the day began to decline, the Twelve came up and said to him, "Send the crowd away to the villages and farms around to find food and shelter, for we are in a lonely place here."

and said, "The Son of Man must endure great suffering and be refused by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and be raised to life on the third day."

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, it happened that a great crowd met him.

And a man in the crowd shouted, "Master, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child,

and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes him who has sent me. For it is the lowliest among you all who is really great."

As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed is the mother who bore you and nursed you!"

But the Master said to him, "You Pharisees clean the outside of cups and dishes, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

But the very hairs on your heads are all counted! You must not be afraid, you are worth more than a great many sparrows!

Someone in the crowd said to him, "Master, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance."

And he said to them, "Take care! You must be on your guard against any form of greed, for a man's life does not belong to him, no matter how rich he is."

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have great wealth stored up for years to come. Now take your ease; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself." '

But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."

He said to him, "A man once gave a great dinner, and invited a large number to it,

There were great crowds accompanying him, and once he turned and said to them,

And he said to them, "You are the men who parade your uprightness before people, but God knows your hearts. For what men consider great is detestable in the sight of God.

Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.'

And hearing a crowd going by he asked what it meant.

who wanted to see who Jesus was, and he could not because of the crowd, for he was a small man.

Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Master, reprove your disciples!"

There will be great earthquakes, and pestilence and famine here and there. There will be horrors and great signs in the sky.

But alas for women who are with child at that time, or who have babies, for there will be great misery in the land and anger at this people.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great power and glory.

While he was still speaking, a crowd of people came up, with the man called Judas, one of the Twelve, at their head, and he stepped up to Jesus to kiss him.

And Pilate said to the high priests and the crowd, "I cannot find anything criminal about this man."

He was followed by a great crowd of people and of women who were beating their breasts and lamenting him.

They were in great perplexity over this, when suddenly two men in dazzling clothing stood beside them.

And they went back with great joy to Jerusalem,