After those days his wife Elizabeth conceived; and for five months she concealed herself.

"The Lord has done this for me," she said, "he has now deigned to remove my reproach among men."

At this she was startled; she thought to herself, whatever can this greeting mean?

Look, there is your kinswoman Elizabeth! Even she has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month;

she entered the house of Zechariah and saluted Elizabeth,

she called out with a loud cry, "Blessed among women are you, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

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

Now the time for Elizabeth's delivery had elapsed, and she gave birth to a son.

to be registered along with Mary his wife. She was pregnant,

she gave birth to her firstborn son, and as there was no room for them inside the khan she wrapped him up and laid him in a stall for cattle.

and as for Mary, she treasured it all up and mused upon it.

There was also a prophetess, Hannah the daughter of Phanuel, who belonged to the tribe of Asher; she was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her girlhood

and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

Now at that very hour she came up, and she offered praise to God and spoke of him to all who were on the outlook for the redemption of Jerusalem.

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

he stood over her and checked the fever, and it left her. Then she instantly got up and ministered to them.

Just as he was near the gate of the town, there was a dead man being carried out; he was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town were with her.

Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume

and stood behind him at his feet in tears; her tears began to wet his feet, so she wiped them with the hair of her head, pressed kisses on them, and anointed them with the perfume.

When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."

Then turning to the woman he said to Simon, "You see this woman? When I came into your house, you never gave me water for my feet, while she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair;

you never gave me a kiss, while ever since she came in she has kept pressing kisses on my feet;

you never anointed my head with oil, while she has anointed my feet with perfume.

for he had an only daughter about twelve years old and she was dying. As Jesus went the crowds kept crushing him,

So when the woman saw she had not escaped notice, she came trembling, and falling down before him she told before all the people why she had touched him and how she had been instantly cured.

But when Jesus heard it he said to him, "Have no fear, only believe and she shall get well."

Everyone was weeping and bewailing her, but he said, "Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep."

They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.

And her spirit returned, she got up instantly, and he ordered them to give her something to eat.

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk.

Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand."

Mary has chosen the best dish, and she is not to be dragged away from it."

The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and here is One greater than Solomon.

it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation,

there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself.

He laid his hands on her, and instantly she became erect and glorified God.

And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?"

Or again, suppose a woman has ten shillings. If she loses one of them, does she not light a lamp and scour the house and search carefully till she finds it?

And when she finds it she gathers her women-friends and neighbours, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the shilling I lost.'

Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them."

for these people all contributed out of their surplus, but she has given out of her neediness all her living."

So too he gave them the cup after supper, saying, "This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood shed for your sake.