They had no children, for Elizabeth was barren; and they were both advanced in life.

But when he came out he could not speak to them, and they knew that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. For his part, he kept making signs to them, and remained dumb.

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

"By the lips of his holy prophets he promised of old to do this??71 To save us from our enemies and from the hands of all who hate us,

When they saw this, they told what had been said to them about this child.

but Mary treasured up all they had said, and pondered over it.

And the shepherds went back glorifying God and praising him for all that they had heard and seen in fulfilment of what they had been told.

When he was eight days old and it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, as the angel had named him, before his birth was first expected.

It had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he should not die without seeing the Lord's Messiah.

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,

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

When they had done everything that the Law of the Lord required, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

but Herod the governor, whom he condemned because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and all the wicked things Herod had done,

When the devil had tried every kind of temptation he left him till another time.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

As the sun went down all who had friends sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and cured them.

and he saw two boats on the shore of the lake, for the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.

For he and all the men with him were perfectly amazed at the haul of fish they had made,

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

And he got up at once before them all, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home, praising God.

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.

"Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you and spurn the name you bear as evil, on account of the Son of Man.

"But alas for you who are rich, for you have had your comfort!

"But I tell you who hear me, love your enemies, treat those who hate you well,

When he had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he went to Capernaum.

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 the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

You did not put any oil upon my head, but she has put perfume upon my feet.

and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness??ary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven,

And some of it fell upon the rock, and when it sprang up it withered, because it had no moisture.

And when he landed, he met a man possessed by demons, who was coming out of the town. He had worn no clothing for a long time, and did not live in a house but in the tombs.

For he was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For it had often seized him, and though he had been fastened with chains and fetters, and was closely watched, he would snap his bonds and the demon would drive him away to the desert.

And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around.

And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.

And those who had seen it told them how the man who had been possessed was cured.

The man out of whom the demons had gone begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, and said,

"Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him.

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As he was going, the crowds of people almost crushed him.

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom nobody had been able to cure,

When the woman saw that she had not escaped his notice, she came forward trembling, and fell down before him, and before all the people told why she had touched him, and how she had been cured at once.

And her parents were amazed, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.

Herod the governor heard of all that was happening, and he was perplexed because some people said that John had risen from the dead,

and some that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life.

Then the apostles came back and told Jesus what they had done. And he took them and quietly retired to a town called Bethsaida.

And they all ate and had enough, and the pieces left over that were gathered up filled twelve baskets.

Peter and his companions had been overcome by sleep, but waking up they saw his glorious appearance and the two men standing by him.

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

Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and wild birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head!"

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes!

She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to what he was saying.

But Martha was worried with all she had to do for them, and she came up and said, "Master, does it make no difference to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'It is going to be very hot,' and it is.

Just then some people came up to bring him word of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices.

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

and there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit. She was bent double and could not straighten herself up at all.

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."

It is like yeast that a woman took and hid in a bushel of flour, till it all rose."

There was a man in front of him who had dropsy.

And he said to the man who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, for then they will invite you in return and you will be repaid.

And he said, "A man had two sons.

Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.

After he had spent it all, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want.

But we had to celebrate and be glad, because your brother was dead, and has come to life, and was lost and is found!' "

And he said to his disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and it was reported to him that this man was squandering his property.

And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their relation to their own age than the sons of the light.

No servant can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or he will stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money!"

And Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus had his misfortunes in his; and now he is being comforted here, while you are in anguish.

and he said, "There was once in a city a judge who had no fear of God and no respect for men.

And when he had secured the appointment and returned, he ordered the slaves to whom he had given the money to be called in, so that he could find out how much they had made.

And the messengers went and found it just as he had told them.

Just as he was coming down the Mount of Olives and approaching the city, the whole throng of his disciples began to praise God loudly and joyfully, for all the wonders they had seen,

And the scribes and high priests wanted to arrest him then and there, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had aimed this illustration at them.

"Show me a denarius. Whose head and title does it bear?" They said, "The emperor's."

For they all gave from what they had to spare, but she in her want has put in all she had to live on."

Yet not a hair of your head will perish!

When the day of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed,

So they went and found everything just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover supper.

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 Jesus said to the high priests, captains of the Temple, and elders who had come to take him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as though I were a robber?

And the Master turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the words the Master had said to him??"Before the cock crows today, you will disown me three times."

The men who had Jesus in custody flogged him and made sport of him,

When Herod saw Jesus he was delighted, for he had wanted for a long time to see him, because he had heard about him and he hoped to see some wonder done by him.

And Herod and Pilate became friends that day, for they had been at enmity before.

(He was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had taken place in the city and for murder.)

He released the man they asked for, who had been put in prison for riot and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.

For there was a notice above his head, "This is the king of the Jews!"

When the captain saw what had happened he praised God, and said, "This man was really innocent!"

And all the crowds that had collected for the sight, when they saw what happened, returned to the city beating their breasts.

And all his acquaintances and the women who had come with him from Galilee, stood at a distance looking on.

who had not voted for the plan or action of the council. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea and lived in expectation of the Kingdom of God.

Then he took it down from the cross and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

The women who had followed Jesus from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was put there.

but on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking spices they had prepared.

and they were talking together about all these things that had happened.

and how the high priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and had him crucified.

and could not find his body, but came back and said that they had actually seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive.

Then some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

and learned from them that the Master had really risen and had been seen by Simon.