The birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. After his mother, Mary, had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.

"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her is by the Holy Spirit; and she will bear a son, and you are to call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose and waited upon him.

As he was saying these words to them, a ruler came up and knelt before him, saying. "My daughter has just died; but come, put your hand upon her, and she will live."

For she said to herself, "If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured."

"Leave the room, for the little girl is not dead, she is sleeping." And they began laughing at him.

"The Queen of the South will rise in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and lo! a greater than Solomon is here!

and so pleased Herod that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked for.

Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."

But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."

"True, Lord," she said, "but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."

"What is it you wish?" he said. She answered, "Command that these my two sons may sit upon your right hand and your left in your kingdom."

"In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be? They all had her."

"But immediately after the tribulation of those days, "The sun will be darkened, The moon will not shed her light, The stars will fall from the sky, And the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

But when Jesus understood it he said to them. "Why are you annoying the woman? This is a beautiful deed she has done for me;

"In pouring this perfume on my body, she was preparing me for my burial.

"In solemn truth I tell you that wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, what she has done shall be told about, as her memorial."

So he came and took her hand and raised her up. The fever left her at once, and she began to wait upon them.

"My little daughter," he said, "is dying. I beseech you, come and lay your hands on her, that she may recover and live."

and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, but was no better; on the contrary, rather grew worse.

She had heard about Jesus, so she came in the crowd behind and touched his cloak.

"If I can touch even his clothes," she kept saying to herself, "I shall get well."

At once the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was cured of her complaint.

And instantly the little girl stood up, and began to walk, for she was twelve years old, They were at once beside themselves with utter amazement.

but she could not, for Herod was afraid of John because he knew that he was a just and holy man. So he kept him safe. When he listened to John he was much exercised, yet he found pleasure in listening to him.

at which the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced. She charmed Herod and his guests. "Ask me whatever you want," said the king to the young girl, "and I will give it to you."

He even swore to her that whatever she asked, he would give it to her, up to half his kingdom.

So she came out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptist," she replied.

So she at once hurried in to the king and made her request, "I want you," she said, "to give me, without delay, the head of John the Baptist on a charger."

And he went and beheaded John in prison, brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young girl, and she gave it to her mother.

(the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race), and again and again she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

"True, Master," she answered, "but the dogs under the table do pick up the children's crumbs."

So she went home, and found the child lying in her bed and the demon departed.

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

And last of all the woman too died. In the resurrection whose wife shall she be? For the seven had her as wife."

for they have all put in what they could spare out of their surplus, but she, out of her penury, has put in all that she possessed, her whole living."

"But when the tribulation is past, in those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed her light,

And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while he was dining, a woman came with an alabaster vase of very costly, pure spikenard perfume, and, breaking the vase, she poured the perfume on his head.

She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor among you, and can show them kindness whenever you wish, but me you will not always have.

She has done what she could. she has before time anointed my body for my burial.

I tell you in solemn truth that wherever the gospel is preached throughout the whole world, there what she has done shall be told in remembrance of her."

She looked at him, and said, "You too were with the Nazarene, Jesus."

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

and after those days Elizabeth, his wife, Conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying.

"And behold your kinswoman, Elizabeth, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this was the sixth month with her that was called barren.

and there she came into the house of Zachariah, and greeted Elizabeth.

"And blessed is she who believed that the Lord's words spoken to her would be fulfilled."

Now when the time of Elizabeth's delivery was come, she gave birth to a son;

And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in age, having lived with her husband seven years, after her girlhood,

and then being a widow even for fourscore and four years. She departed not from the temple, but worshiped with the fasting and prayer, night and day.

She came up at that very hour, and gave thanks to God, and spoke of the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

son of Cainan, son of Arpachshad, son of Shem, son of Noah, son of Lamech,

And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her; and at once she arose and ministered unto them.

Now when he drew near the gate of the city, behold, they were there carrying out one who was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.

Now there was a woman who was in the city, a sinner and when she knew that that Jesus was reclining at meat in the Pharisees house, she brought an alabaster vase of perfume,

and standing behind, at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and to wipe them with her hair, while she tenderly kissed his feet, and poured the perfume over them.

When he noticed this the Pharisee, who had invited him, said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet he would have perceived who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, and would know that she is a sinner."

"You have rightly judged." answered Jesus, and turning to the woman, he said to Simon. "Do you see this woman? When I came into 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; but she, since she came in, has never ceased tenderly kissing my feet;

"you never anointed my head with oil; but she has anointed my feet with my feet with perfume.

for he had only one daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay dying. But as he went the crowds continued to press in on him.

And a woman who for twelve years had had a hemorrhage, and had spent on doctors all that she had, but none had cured her,

Then the woman, who saw that she had not escaped notice, came trembling, and falling down before him, stated before the people for what reason she had touched him, and how she had been instantly healed.

But Jesus heard and answered. "Have no fear. Only believe, and she shall be restored."

The people were weeping and bewailing her, but he said: "Stop your wailing; for she is not dead, but asleep."

They began to laugh him to scorn, because they knew well that she was dead.

And her spirit returned and instantly she stood up.

She had a sister named Mary, who after seating herself at the Lord's feet was listening to his teaching.

But Martha meanwhile was growing distracted about much serving. She came up to him and said: "Lord do you not care that my sister has left me alone to do the serving? Come tell her to take hold of her end of the work along with me."

"The queen of the South shall rise up in Judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them; because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, one greater than Solomon is here!

"so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation,

a woman was present who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. she was bent double, and could not lift herself up at all.

Then he placed his hand on her, and she instantly stood upright and began to give glory to God.

"and this woman, who is the daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound these eighteen years, ought she not have been loosened from bondage, though the day be the Sabbath?"

"Or, again, suppose a woman has ten coins. If she loses one, does she not light a lamp and sweep the house, and search anxiously until she finds it?

"And when she has found it, she calls together her woman friends and neighbors and say, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

"'yet because this woman annoys me I will give her justice, lest by her continual coming she wear me out.'

"In the resurrection whose wife shall she be? For they all seven had her as wife."

"for these men have all contributed to the offering out of their surplus, but she, out of her want, contributed all she had to live on."

But a certain maid servant saw him taking his seat near the fire and, with a sharp glance at him, she said, "This fellow was with him, too!"

Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."

"No one, Sir," she answered. "Neither do I condemned you," said Jesus. "Go, and never sin again."

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

"Yes, Master," she answered, "I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

With these words she went away to call her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

So when Mary heard this, she rose quickly and went to meet him.

Then the Jews who were in the house trying to console her, when they saw that Mary rose quickly and went out, followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

When Mary came to the place where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying, "Master had you been here, my brother would not have died."

used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

A woman in labor has grief because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the babe she no longer remembers her anguish, because of joy that a child has been born into the world.

So she came running to Simon Peter and that other disciple whom Jesus loved, saying, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him!"

Meanwhile, outside, Mary stood sobbing near the tomb. Still sobbing she stooped and looked into the tomb,

They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She answered, "Because they have taken away my Master, and I do not know where they have laid him."

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

Jesus said to her. "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" She, supposing that he was the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have borne him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away, myself."

"Mary," said Jesus. She turned to him. "Rabboni!" she cried in Hebrew. That is to say, "Teacher."

and Peter said to her, "Tell me if you got so much for the land." "Yes," she said, "so much."

Instantly she fell down at his feet and expired, and when the young men came in they found her dead, and carried her out and buried her husband.

Among the disciples at Joppa was a woman named Tabitha??hich may be translated Dorcas or "Gazelle"?? woman whose life was full of good works and almsgiving, which she was doing continually.