Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

but did not have marital relations with her until she gave birth to a son, whom he named Jesus.

"A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were gone."

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve them.

As he was saying these things, a ruler came, bowed low before him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live."

For she kept saying to herself, "If only I touch his cloak, I will be healed."

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon -- and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

Instructed by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter."

His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, "Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us."

But she came and bowed down before him and said, "Lord, help me!"

"Yes, Lord," she replied, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.

He said to her, "What do you want?" She replied, "Permit these two sons of mine to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom."

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her."

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfumed oil, and she poured it on his head as he was at the table.

When Jesus learned of this, he said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a good service for me.

When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."

He came and raised her up by gently taking her hand. Then the fever left her and she began to serve them.

He asked him urgently, "My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live."

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,

for she kept saying, "If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed."

At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.

So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not

When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests. The king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you."

So she went out and said to her mother, "What should I ask for?" Her mother said, "The head of John the baptizer."

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: "I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately."

The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

She answered, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her."

For they all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had."

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me.

She did what she could. She anointed my body beforehand for burial.

I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."

When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked directly at him and said, "You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus."

When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, "This man is one of them."

She went out and told those who were with him, while they were mourning and weeping.

After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said,

But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.

"And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age -- although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!

She exclaimed with a loud voice, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled."

Now the time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son.

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.

Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner."

Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little."

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

She came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak, and at once the bleeding stopped.

When the woman saw that she could not escape notice, she came trembling and fell down before him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.

But when Jesus heard this, he told him, "Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed."

Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said, "Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep."

And they began making fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

Her spirit returned, and she got up immediately. Then he told them to give her something to eat.

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he said.

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon -- and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,

and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.

Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

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

Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.'

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.'"

For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on."

She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."]]

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

So Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial.

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb.

And she saw two angels in white sitting where Jesus' body had been lying, one at the head and one at the feet.

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him."

Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him in Aramaic, "Rabboni" (which means Teacher).

Mary Magdalene came and informed the disciples, "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them what Jesus had said to her.

After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, but she did not know what had happened.