For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; no wine or fermented drink shall he ever drink; but he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from the very hour of his birth.

There was also Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, belonging to the tribe of Asher. She was of a very great age, having had after her maidenhood seven years of married life,

he answered the question by saying to them all, "As for me, I am baptizing you with water, but One mightier than I is coming, whose very sandal-strap I am not worthy to unfasten: He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and with fire.

"Blessed are you when men shall hate you and exclude you from their society and insult you, and spurn your very names as evil things, for the Son of Man's sake.

Wherever they refuse to receive you, as you leave that town shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."

"'The very dust of your town that hangs about us we wipe off as a protest. Only be sure of this, that the Kingdom of God is close at hand.'

But the very hairs on your heads are all counted. Away with fear: you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.'

for the Holy Spirit shall teach you at that very moment what you must say."

If then you are unable to do even a very little thing, why be over-anxious about other matters?

The man who is honest in a very small matter is honest in a great one also; and he who is dishonest in a very small matter is dishonest in a great one also.

Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all.

"'Well done, good servant,' he replied; 'because you have been faithful in a very small matter, be in authority over ten towns.'

"I tell you," He replied, "that if *they* became silent, the very stones would cry out."

The Master turned and looked on Peter; and Peter recollected the Master's words, how He had said to him, "This very day, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times."

And on that very day Herod and Pilate became friends again, for they had been for some time at enmity.

"I tell you in solemn truth," replied Jesus, "that this very day you shall be with me in Paradise."

See my hands and my feet--it is my very self. Feel me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see I have."