and he will turn many of Israel's descendants to the Lord their God.

"He has helped his servant Israel, Remembering his mercy,

"Blessings on the Lord, the God of Israel, Because he has turned his attention to his people, and brought about their deliverance,

And the child grew up and became strong in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he proclaimed himself to Israel.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Symeon, an upright, devout man, who was living in expectation of the comforting of Israel, and under the influence of the holy Spirit.

A light of revelation for the heathen, And a glory to your people Israel!"

And he gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a portent that will be much debated??35 you yourself will be pierced to the heart??nd so the thoughts of many minds will be revealed."

But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land,

And there were plenty of lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cured, but Naaman the Syrian."

When Jesus heard this, he was astonished at him, and turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such faith as this even in Israel!"

I confer on you the right to eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and to sit on thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

But we were hoping that he was to be the deliverer of Israel. Why, besides all this, it is three days since it happened.