After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said,

But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.

"And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age -- although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!

She exclaimed with a loud voice, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled."

Now the time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son.

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting 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,

So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.

Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

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 kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner."

Then, 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 of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little."

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

She came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak, and at once the bleeding stopped.

When the woman saw that she could not escape notice, she came trembling and fell down before him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.

But when Jesus heard this, he told him, "Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed."

Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said, "Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep."

And they began making fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

Her spirit returned, and she got up immediately. Then he told them to give her something to eat.

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he said.

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon -- and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,

and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.

Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

"Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it?

Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.'

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.'"

For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on."