and after those days Elizabeth, his wife, Conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying.

"And behold your kinswoman, Elizabeth, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this was the sixth month with her that was called barren.

and there she came into the house of Zachariah, and greeted Elizabeth.

"And blessed is she who believed that the Lord's words spoken to her would be fulfilled."

Now when the time of Elizabeth's delivery was come, she gave birth to a son;

And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in age, having lived with her husband seven years, after her girlhood,

and then being a widow even for fourscore and four years. She departed not from the temple, but worshiped with the fasting and prayer, night and day.

She came up at that very hour, and gave thanks to God, and spoke of the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

son of Cainan, son of Arpachshad, son of Shem, son of Noah, son of Lamech,

And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her; and at once she arose and ministered unto them.

Now when he drew near the gate of the city, behold, they were there carrying out one who was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.

Now there was a woman who was in the city, a sinner and when she knew that that Jesus was reclining at meat in the Pharisees house, she brought an alabaster vase of perfume,

and standing behind, at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and to wipe them with her hair, while she tenderly kissed his feet, and poured the perfume over them.

When he noticed this the Pharisee, who had invited him, said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet he would have perceived who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, and would know that she is a sinner."

"You have rightly judged." answered Jesus, and turning to the woman, he said to Simon. "Do you see this woman? When I came into your house you gave me no water for my feet; but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

"You gave me no kiss; but she, since she came in, has never ceased tenderly kissing my feet;

"you never anointed my head with oil; but she has anointed my feet with my feet with perfume.

for he had only one daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay dying. But as he went the crowds continued to press in on him.

And a woman who for twelve years had had a hemorrhage, and had spent on doctors all that she had, but none had cured her,

Then the woman, who saw that she had not escaped notice, came trembling, and falling down before him, stated before the people for what reason she had touched him, and how she had been instantly healed.

But Jesus heard and answered. "Have no fear. Only believe, and she shall be restored."

The people were weeping and bewailing her, but he said: "Stop your wailing; for she is not dead, but asleep."

They began to laugh him to scorn, because they knew well that she was dead.

And her spirit returned and instantly she stood up.

She had a sister named Mary, who after seating herself at the Lord's feet was listening to his teaching.

But Martha meanwhile was growing distracted about much serving. She came up to him and said: "Lord do you not care that my sister has left me alone to do the serving? Come tell her to take hold of her end of the work along with me."

"The queen of the South shall rise up in Judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them; because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, one greater than Solomon is here!

"so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation,

a woman was present who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. she was bent double, and could not lift herself up at all.

Then he placed his hand on her, and she instantly stood upright and began to give glory to God.

"and this woman, who is the daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound these eighteen years, ought she not have been loosened from bondage, though the day be the Sabbath?"

"Or, again, suppose a woman has ten coins. If she loses one, does she not light a lamp and sweep the house, and search anxiously until she finds it?

"And when she has found it, she calls together her woman friends and neighbors and say, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

"'yet because this woman annoys me I will give her justice, lest by her continual coming she wear me out.'

"In the resurrection whose wife shall she be? For they all seven had her as wife."

"for these men have all contributed to the offering out of their surplus, but she, out of her want, contributed all she had to live on."

But a certain maid servant saw him taking his seat near the fire and, with a sharp glance at him, she said, "This fellow was with him, too!"