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.