and uttered a loud cry of joy. "Blest among women are you," she said, "and the offspring of your body is blest!

"I tell you that among all of women born there is not one greater than John. Yet one who is of lower rank in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.

And there was a woman in the town who was a notorious sinner. Having learnt that Jesus was at table in the Pharisee's house she brought a flask of perfume,

Noticing this, the Pharisee, His host, said to himself, "This man, if he were really a Prophet, would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching him--and would know that she is an immoral woman."

Then turning towards the woman He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house: you gave me no water for my feet; but she has made my feet wet with her tears, and then wiped the tears away with her hair.

But He said to the woman, "Your faith has cured you: go, and be at peace."

and certain women whom He had delivered from evil spirits and various diseases--Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had come,

and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, all of whom contributed to the support of Jesus and His Apostles.

And a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with haemorrhage--and had spent on doctors all she had, but none of them had been able to cure her--

Then the woman, perceiving that she had not escaped notice, came trembling, and throwing herself down at His feet she stated before all the people the reason why she had touched Him and how she was instantly cured.

As they pursued their journey He came to a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed Him to her house.

As He thus spoke a woman in the crowd called out in a loud voice, "Blessed is the mother who carried you, and the breasts that you have sucked."

where a woman was present who for eighteen years had been a confirmed invalid: she was bent double, and was unable to lift herself to her full height.

But Jesus saw her, and calling to her, He said to her, "Woman, you are free from your weakness."

And this woman, daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan had bound for no less than eighteen years, was she not to be loosed from this chain because it is the Sabbath day?"

It is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, to work there till the whole is leavened."

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

but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat calf for him.'

There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away and the other left behind."

Finally the woman also died.

The woman, then--at the Resurrection--whose wife shall she be? for they all seven married her."

"The men of this age," replied Jesus, "marry, and the women are given in marriage.

But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.

"Alas for the women who at that time are with child or who have infants; for there will be great distress in the land, and anger towards this People.

But he denied it, and declared, "Woman, I do not know him."

A vast crowd of the people also followed Him, and of women who were beating their breasts and wailing for Him.

For a time is coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the women who never bore children, and the breasts which have never given nourishment.'

But all His acquaintances, and the women who had been His followers after leaving Galilee, continued standing at a distance and looking on.

The women--those who had come with Jesus from Galilee--followed close behind, and saw the tomb and how His body was placed.

The women were terrified; but, as they stood with their faces bowed to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you search among the dead for Him who is living?

The women were Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; and they and the rest of the women related all this to the Apostles.

But the whole story seemed to them an idle tale; they could not believe the women.

And, besides, some of the women of our company have amazed us. They went to the tomb at daybreak,

Thereupon some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said; but Jesus Himself they did not see."