After these days Elizabeth his wife became pregnant, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying,

But she was very perplexed at this statement, and kept pondering what kind of salutation this was.

And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.

And she cried out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.”

Now the time had come for Elizabeth to give birth, and she gave birth to a son.

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

And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

At that very moment she came up and began giving thanks to God, and continued to speak of Him to all those who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

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

And standing over her, He rebuked the fever, and it left her; and she immediately got up and waited on them.

Now as He approached the gate of the city, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a sizeable crowd from the city was with her.

And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume,

and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet He would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching Him, that she is a sinner.”

Turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered 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 the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss My feet.

You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume.

For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little.”

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.

When the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before Him, and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed.

But when Jesus heard this, He answered him, “Do not be afraid any longer; only believe, and she will be made well.”

Now they were all weeping and lamenting for her; but He said, “Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep.”

And they began laughing at Him, knowing that she had died.

And her spirit returned, and she got up immediately; and He gave orders for something to be given her to eat.

She had a sister called Mary, who was seated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word.

But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.”

The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,

And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.

And He laid His hands on her; and immediately she was made erect again and began glorifying God.

And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?”

“Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!’

There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me legal protection from my opponent.’

yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’”

In the resurrection therefore, which one’s wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”

for they all out of their surplus put into the offering; but she out of her poverty put in all that she had to live on.”