The angel answered her, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you; hence what is born will be called holy, Son of God.

and an angel of the Lord flashed upon them, the glory of the Lord shone all round them. They were terribly afraid,

and as for Mary, she treasured it all up and mused upon it.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Symeon, an upright and devout man, who was on the outlook for the Consolation of Israel. The holy Spirit was upon him;

and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah; on opening the book he came upon the place where it was written,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,

Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like.

so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation,

from the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zechariah who was slain between the altar and the House of God ??yes, I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation.

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

"Which of you," he said to them, "when an ass or an ox has fallen into a well, will not pull him out at once upon the sabbath day?"

So he got up and went off to his father. But when he was still far away his father saw him and felt pity for him and ran to fall upon his neck and kiss him.

He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.

So they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their clothes on the colt they mounted Jesus upon it.

and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you ??and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

but they could not discover what was to be done, for the whole of the people hung upon his lips.

Everyone who falls on that stone will be shattered, and whoever it falls upon will be crushed."

they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

"As for what you see, there are days coming when not a stone will be left upon another, without being torn down."

Woe to women with child and to women who give suck in those days, for sore anguish will come upon the land and Wrath on this people;

For it will come upon all dwellers on the face of all the earth.