But how have I this honor, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

That we should be rescued from the hands of our enemies,

And should serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness, In his presence all our days.

About that time an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole Empire.

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not die until he had seen the Lord's Christ.

When they found Jesus, they earnestly implored him to do so. "He is a man who deserves that you should show him this favor," they said,

And suppose that the other should answer from inside 'Do not trouble me; the door is already fastened, and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything';

I will show you of whom you should be afraid. Be afraid of him who, after killing you, has the power to fling you into the Pit. Yes, I say, be afraid of him.

Whether it is late at night, or in the early morning that he comes, if he finds all as it should be, then happy are they.

But should that servant say to himself 'My master is a long time coming,' and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

When, for instance, you are going with your opponent before a magistrate, on your way to the court do your best to be quit of him; for fear that he should drag you before the judge, when the judge will hand you over to the bailiff of the court, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

So he said to his gardener 'Three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any! Cut it down. Why should it rob the soil?'

But to-day and to-morrow and the day after I must go on my way, because it cannot be that a Prophet should meet his end outside Jerusalem.

"When you are invited by any one to a wedding banquet, do not seat yourself in the best place, for fear that some one of higher rank should have been invited by your host;

Then Jesus went on to say to the man who had invited him: "When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not ask your friends, or your brothers, or your relations, or rich neighbors, for fear that they should invite you in return, and so you should be repaid.

For fear that, if he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, every one who sees it should begin to laugh at him,

Yes, salt is good; but, if the salt itself should lose its strength, what shall be used to season it?

Jesus said to his disciples: "It is inevitable that there should be snares; yet alas for him who is answerable for them!

It would be good for him if he had been flung into the sea with a mill-stone round his neck, rather than that he should prove a snare to even one of these lowly ones.

Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and never despair.

On his return, after having been appointed King, he directed that the servants to whom he had given his money should be summoned, so that he might learn what amount of trade they had done.

At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, that they should give him a share of the produce of the vineyard. The tenants, however, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

"Teacher, Moses laid down for us in his writings that-- 'Should a man's married brother die, and should he be childless, the man should take the widow as his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.'

Be on your guard lest your minds should ever be dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and lest 'That Day' should come suddenly upon you, like a snare.

But I prayed for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. And you, when you have returned to me, are to strengthen your Brothers."

Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.

"Scripture says that the Christ should suffer, and that he should rise again from the dead on the third day,

And that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed on his authority to all the nations--beginning at Jerusalem.