The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After His mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

She will give birth to a son, and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

but did not know her intimately until she gave birth to a son. And he named Him Jesus.

A voice was heard in Ramah,
weeping, and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
and she refused to be consoled,
because they were no more.

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

As He was telling them these things, suddenly one of the leaders came and knelt down before Him, saying, “My daughter is near death, but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”

for she said to herself, “If I can just touch His robe, I’ll be made well!”

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 look—something greater than Solomon is here!

So he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.

And prompted by her mother, she answered, “Give me John the Baptist’s head here on a platter!”

Yet He did not say a word to her. So His disciples approached Him and urged Him, “Send her away because she cries out after us.”

But she came, knelt before Him, and said, “Lord, help me!”

“Yes, Lord,” she said, “yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table!”

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached Him with her sons. She knelt down to ask Him for something.

“What do you want?” He asked her.

“Promise,” she said to Him, “that these two sons of mine may sit, one on Your right and the other on Your left, in Your kingdom.”

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

So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days:

The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not shed its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the celestial powers will be shaken.

a woman approached Him with an alabaster jar of very expensive fragrant oil. She poured it on His head as He was reclining at the table.

But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a noble thing for Me.

By pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she has prepared Me for burial.

For this is My blood that establishes the covenant; it is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant approached him and she said, “You were with Jesus the Galilean too.”