and called out with a loud cry. "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is your unborn child!

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

"For he has regarded the humiliation of his slave, And from this hour all ages will count me blessed.

"Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, For he has visited and redeemed his people,

he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said,

And while his father and mother were marveling at the words that were spoken concerning him, Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother.

Then raising his eyes upon his disciples he began to say to them. "Blessed are you poor, For the kingdom of God is yours.

"Blessed are you who are hungry now, For you shall be filled. "Blessed are you who are wailing now, For you shall laugh.

"Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.

"And blessed is he who finds no cause of stumbling in me."

Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up in heaven, he blessed them, broke them in pieces, and began to giving to his disciples to apportion among the crowd.

And turning to his disciples he said privately. "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

It happened while he was saying this, that a certain woman out of the crowd shouted to him, saying, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breast that you have sucked."

"No, rather," he answered, "blessed are those who listen to the word of God, and keep it."

"Blessed is that slave whom his master on his coming shall find so doing.

"Behold! Your house is left to you, desolate! I tell you that you shall never see me again until you say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord,"

"Then you will be blessed, because they have no means to repay you, but you shall be paid in the Resurrection of the Just."

One of his fellow guest who was listening to him, said to him, "Blessed are those who eat bread in the kingdom of God."

They cried, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in Heaven and glory in the Highest"

"but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.'

So he went in to stay with them. But as he sat down with them, and took bread, and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them,

And he led them out until they were over against Bethany; and he lifted up his hands and blessed them.