As it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every man child that first openeth the matrix, shall be called holy to the Lord":

And they had no child, because that Elizabeth was barren; And both were well stricken in age.

And it fortuned, the eighth day they came to circumcise the child: and called his name Zacharias after the name of his father,

and all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner child shall this be? And the hand of the Lord was with him.

And thou child, shalt be called the prophet of the highest, for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways:

And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in wilderness: till the day came, when he should show himself unto the Israelites.

to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, which was with child.

And take this for a sign: ye shall find the child swaddled, and laid in a manger."

And when they had seen it, they published abroad the saying, which was told them of that child.

And when the eighth day was come that the child should be circumcised, his name was called Jesus, which was named of the angel before he was conceived in the mother's womb.

And he came by inspiration into the temple. And when the father and mother brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,

And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, "Behold, this child shall be the fall, and resurrection, of many in Israel: And a sign which shall be spoken against.

And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, and was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was with him.

And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned home, the child Jesus bode still in Jerusalem, unknowing to his father and mother.

As he yet was a coming, the fiend rent him, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him to his father.

When Jesus perceived the thoughts of their hearts, he took a child, and set him hard by him,

and said unto them, "Whosoever receiveth this child in my name, receiveth me. And whosoever receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. For he that is least among you all, the same shall be great."

Verily I say unto you, Whosoever receiveth not the kingdom of God, as a child: he shall not enter therein."

And Jesus said to him, "This day is health come unto this house, forasmuch as he also is become the child of Abraham.

But woe be to them that be with child, and to them that give suck in those days, for there shall be great trouble in the land: and wrath over all this people.