And a man from among them, crying out, said, Master, I make a request to you, give a thought to my son, for he is my only child:

And said to them, Whoever gives honour to this child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour to him who sent me: for whoever is least among you all, that man is great.

And she said with a loud voice: May blessing be on you among women, and a blessing on the child of your body.

And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;

And all who had word of them kept them in their minds and said, What will this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.

And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;

And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

And this is the sign to you: you will see a young child folded in linen, in the place where the cattle have their food.

And they came quickly, and saw Mary and Joseph, and the child in the place where the cattle had their food.

And when they saw it, they gave them an account of the things which had been said to them about the child.

(As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord),

And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law,

And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;

And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading.

But he, taking her hand, said to her, My child, get up.

But when Jesus saw the reasoning of their hearts, he took a small child and put him by his side,

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.