and when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leapt in her womb. Then Elizabeth was filled with the holy Spirit;

she called out with a loud cry, "Blessed among women are you, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Why, as soon as the sound of your salutation reached my ears, the babe leapt for joy within my womb.

When the eight days had passed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus ??the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

(as it is written in the law of the Lord: every male that opens the womb must be considered consecrated to the Lord)

While he was saying this, a woman shouted to him out of the crowd, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts you sucked!"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

His faith never quailed, even when he noted the utter impotence of his own body (for he was about a hundred years old) or the impotence of Sara's womb;