Soon afterward his wife Elizabeth began to expect a child, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months.

"This is what the Lord has done for me," she said, "now that he has deigned to remove the disgrace I have endured."

But she was startled at what he said, and wondered what this greeting meant.

And your relative, Elizabeth, although she is old, is going to give birth to a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was said to be barren.

and she went to Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth.

and she gave a great cry, and said, "You are the most favored of women, And blessed is your child!

Blessed is she who has believed, For what the Lord has promised her will be fulfilled!"

Now the time came for Elizabeth's child to be born, and she gave birth to a son.

and she gave birth to her first-born son; and she wrapped him up, and laid him in a manger, for there was no room for them at the inn.

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.

She came up just at that time and gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were living in expectation of the liberation of Jerusalem.

the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

And he stood over her and reproved the fever and it left her, and she got up and waited on them.

As he came up to the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out; he was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A crowd of the townspeople was with her.

Now there was a woman in the town who was leading a sinful life, and when she learned that he was having dinner at the Pharisee's house, she got an alabaster flask of perfume,

and came and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with her hair, and kissed them, and put the perfume on them.

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."

And turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came to your house; you did not give me any water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair.

You did not give me a kiss, but from the moment I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet.

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

Therefore, I tell you, her sins, many as they are, are forgiven, for she has loved me so much. But the man with little to be forgiven loves me but little."

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.

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.

But Jesus heard it and said to him, "Do not be afraid; just have faith, and she will get well."

And they were all wailing and beating their breasts for her. But he said, "Stop wailing! For she is not dead, she is asleep."

And they laughed at him, for they knew that she was dead.

And her spirit returned and she stood up immediately, and he directed them to give her something to eat.

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."

The queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation at the Judgment and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute'??50 so that this age may be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the creation of the world,

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.

And he laid his hands on her, and she instantly became erect, and praised God.

Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one, does not light the lamp and sweep the house and look carefully until she finds it?

And when she finds it, she calls in her friends and neighbors, and says to them, 'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin that I lost!'

There was a widow in the city and she came to him and said, 'Protect me from my opponent.'

yet because this widow bothers me, I will protect her, so that she may not finally wear me out with her coming.' "

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