the angel answered her, "the holy spirit shall descend upon thee, and the power of the most high shall over-shadow thee: wherefore thy holy offspring shall be called the son of God.

And she cried out with a loud shout and said, "Blessed [are] you among women, and blessed [is] the fruit of your womb!

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

And when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon, Go off into deep water, and shoot your nets for a draught.

And Simon answering, said unto him, Sir, we have been toiling all night, and have taken nothing: but at thy command I will shoot the net.

They're like little children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other, "A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.'

And while he said these things, the shade of a cloud came over them, and they were full of fear when they went into the cloud.

And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute'??50 so that this age may be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the creation of the world,

That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.

The Pharisee, standing erect, prayed as follows by himself: "'O God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people--I am not a thief nor a cheat nor an adulterer, nor do I even resemble this tax-gatherer.

But He answered them, "I tell you, if these people remain quiet [about me], [then] the stones will shout [about it]."

For a time [of siege] is coming when your enemies will put up a barricade [with pointed stakes] against you, and surround you [with armies] and hem you in on every side,

And when you may see Jerusalem shut up by the armies, then know that her desolation is nigh.

When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

Then the whole multitude burst out into a shout. "Away with this man," they said, "and release Barabbas to us"

but they continued to shout, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"

Then, taking it down, he wrapped it in a linen sheet and laid it in a tomb in the rock, where no one else had yet been put.