All who heard the story treasured it in their memories. "What then will this child be?" they said. For the lord's hand was indeed with him.

"As for you, store these my sayings in your memory; for, before long, the Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men."

and he debated within himself, saying, "'What am I to do? for I have no place in which to store my crops.'

"And he said to himself, "'This is what I will do: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store up all my harvest and my wealth;

Observe the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, and have neither store-chamber nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How far more precious are you than the birds!

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