"Teacher, Moses wrote for us a law that, if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should take the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

Then a man in the crowd at once shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, because he is my only child;

Then Symeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to bring the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign continuously disputed --

And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both of them were far advanced in years.

Then the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and so your child will be called holy, the Son of God.

and with a loud shout she said: "Blessed are you among women, And blessed is your child!

So it was time for Elizabeth to bear a child, and she bore a son.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they tried to name him Zechariah, after his father.

and all who heard them kept them in their hearts, and said, "What then is this child to be?" for the hand of the Lord was with him.

And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to make ready His ways,

Now the child continued to grow and to gain strength in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he announced himself to Israel.

When they saw this, they informed them of the story that had been told about this child.

So under the Spirit's guidance he went into the temple, and when the parents brought the child Jesus there to do for Him as the custom of the law required,

Just at that time she came up and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were expecting the deliverance of Jerusalem.

And the child continued to grow and gain in strength; He continued to increase in wisdom, and the spiritual blessing of God was on Him.

When His parents saw Him, they were utterly amazed, and yet His mother said to Him, "My child, why did you treat us so? Just see how your father and I, in agony of mind, have been searching for you!"