So He went to her, took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she began to serve them.

and kept begging Him, “My little daughter is at death’s door. Come and lay Your hands on her so she can get well and live.”

had endured much under many doctors. She had spent everything she had and was not helped at all. On the contrary, she became worse.

Having heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His robe.

For she said, “If I can just touch His robes, I’ll be made well!”

Instantly her flow of blood ceased, and she sensed in her body that she was cured of her affliction.

Immediately the girl got up and began to walk. (She was 12 years old.) At this they were utterly astounded.

Then He gave them strict orders that no one should know about this and said that she should be given something to eat.

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

When Herodias’s own daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I’ll give it to you.”

Then she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?”

“John the Baptist’s head!” she said.

Immediately she hurried to the king and said, “I want you to give me John the Baptist’s head on a platter—right now!”

Now the woman was Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

But she replied to Him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

When she went back to her home, she found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

Also, if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?”

For they all gave out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she possessed—all she had to live on.”

“But in those days, after that tribulation:

The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not shed its light;

While He was in Bethany at the house of Simon who had a serious skin disease, as He was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of pure and expensive fragrant oil of nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head.

Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing for Me.

She has done what she could; she has anointed My body in advance for burial.

He said to them, “This is My blood that establishes the covenant; it is shed for many.

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

When the servant saw him again she began to tell those standing nearby, “This man is one of them!”

She went and reported to those who had been with Him, as they were mourning and weeping.