Now the birth of Christ Jesus occurred under these conditions: After His mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, but before they had lived together, she was found to be an expectant mother through the influence of the Holy Spirit.

But just as this thought occurred to him, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for it is through the influence of the Holy Spirit that she has become an expectant mother.

And she will have a son, and you must name Him Jesus, for it is He who is to save His people from their sins."

but he did not live with her as a husband until she had had a son; and he named Him Jesus.

"A sob was heard in Ramah, weeping and great wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she refused to be comforted, because they were gone."

He touched her hand, the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on Him.

And just as He was saying these things to them, an official came up and fell on his knees before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand upon her and she will come to life."

For she kept saying to herself, "If I can only touch His coat, I will get well."

The queen of the south will rise with the leaders of this age at the judgment and condemn them, for she came from the farthest limits of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

and so passionately promised to give her anything she might ask for.

And she, prompted by her mother, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head right here on a platter."

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

But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came up and kept begging Him, "Send her away, for she keeps on screaming after us."

But she came and bowed to Him, and kept praying, "Lord, help me!"

She said, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs usually eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."

And He asked her, "What do you want?" She answered Him, "Give orders that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right and one at your left in your kingdom."

Now at the resurrection which one's wife, of the seven, will she be? For they all married her."

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

"And immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not shed its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the sky will be shaken.

But Jesus, because He understood them, said to them, "Why do you embarrass the woman? She has done a good deed to me,

For in putting this perfume on my body she has done it to prepare me for my burial.

I solemnly say to you, all over the world wherever this good news is proclaimed, the good deed that she has done will be told, in memory of her."

Then He went up to her, grasped her hand, and had her get up. The fever left her, and she began to wait upon them.

and kept earnestly begging Him, saying, "My dear little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live."

and had suffered much at the hands of many doctors, and had spent all she had, and yet was not a whit benefited but rather grew worse,

heard the reports about Jesus. So she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His coat,

for she kept saying, "If I can only touch His clothes, I shall get well."

Her hemorrhage stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was cured.

So the woman, as she knew what had taken place for her, though frightened and trembling, came forward and fell on her knees before His feet, and told Him the whole truth.

And the little girl at once got up and started walking around, for she was twelve years old. And instantly they were completely dumbfounded.

So Herodias had it in for him and wanted to have him killed. But she could not have it done,

She left the room and asked her mother, "What shall I ask him for?" And she answered, "The head of John the Baptist."

Then she rushed at once before the king, and made this request, "I want you this very minute to give me John the Baptist's head on a platter."

She was a heathen who spoke Greek and had been born in Syro-Phenicia. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

But she answered Him, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs under the table usually eat the crumbs the children drop."

She went home and found her daughter lying in bed, and the demon gone out.

and if any woman divorces her husband to marry another man, she commits adultery."

Now at the resurrection, which one's wife will she be? For all seven of them married her."

For all of them put in out of their surplus, but she in her want put in all she had, yes, all she had to live on."

"But in those days, after that misery, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not shed its light,

While He was in Bethany, He was a guest in the home of Simon the leper, and as He was sitting at table, a woman came in with an alabaster bottle of pure nard perfume, very costly; she broke the bottle and poured the perfume on His head.

But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you embarrass her? She has done a good deed to me.

She has done all she could; she has beforehand perfumed my body for my burial.

I solemnly say to you, all over the world wherever this good news is proclaimed, the deed that she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

and when she saw that Peter was warming himself, she looked at him and said, "You were with Jesus of Nazareth too!"

She went out and told it to His disciples, while they were mourning and weeping.

So after this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying,

But she was agitated at what he said, and began to ponder what this greeting meant.

And listen! your relative, Elizabeth, has herself too become pregnant, although she is old, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

and she went to Zechariah's home and greeted Elizabeth.

and with a loud shout she said: "Blessed are you among women, And blessed is your child!

Blessed is she who has believed, for what is promised to her by the Lord will be fulfilled."

So it was time for Elizabeth to bear a child, and she bore a son.

and she bore her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him up and laid Him in a manger, for there was no room for them at the inn.

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

Just at that time she came up and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were expecting the deliverance of Jerusalem.

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

Then He took His stand by her and reproved the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

As He approached the gate of the town, look, there was being carried out a dead man, his mother's only son, and she was a widow! A considerable crowd of townspeople were with her.

There was a woman in the town who was a social outcast, and when she learned that He was taking dinner at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster bottle of perfume

and took her stand behind Him at His feet, continually weeping. Then she began to wet His feet with her tears, but she continued to wipe them off with the hair of her head, and she kept right on kissing His feet with affection and anointing them with the perfume.

So when the Pharisee who invited Him saw it, he said to himself, "If He were really a prophet, He would know who and of what character the woman is who is clinging to Him -- that she is a social outcast."

And turning face to face with the woman He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came to your house; you did not give me any water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair.

You did not give me a kiss, but she, from the moment I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet with affection.

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

Therefore, I tell you, her sins, as many as they are, are forgiven, for she has loved me so much. But the one who has little to be forgiven loves me little."

When the woman saw that she had not escaped His notice, she came forward trembling, and falling down before Him she told in the presence of all the people why she had touched Him and how she had been cured at once.

But Jesus heard it and said to him, "Do not be afraid; just have faith, and she will get well."

Now they were all weeping and wailing over her. But He said, "Stop weeping! For she is not dead but asleep."

Then they began to laugh in His face, for they knew that she was dead.

So her spirit returned and she got up at once, and He directed that something be given her to eat.

She had a sister named Mary who took her seat at the Lord's feet, and remained listening to His message.

But Martha was getting worried about having to wait on them so much, so she came up suddenly and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the housework alone? Then tell her to take hold and help me."

The queen of the south will rise at the judgment with the men of this age and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom; and yet, One who is more than Solomon is here.

so that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed from the creation of the world may be charged against the men of this age --

and there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had a disease caused by a spirit. She was bent double and could not straighten herself up at all.

Then He laid His hands on her, and at once she straightened herself up and burst into praising God.

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

And when she finds it, she calls in her friends and neighbors, and says, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found the coin which I lost!'

yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will give her justice and protection, so that she may not finally wear me out by her continual coming."

for all the rest of them made their contributions out of their surplus, but she out of her want dropped in all that she had to live on."

She said to Him, "You have nothing to draw with, sir, and the well is deep. Where do you get your living water?

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did."

And she said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go. Stop sinning from this point on."

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.

She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

On saying this she went back and called her sister Mary, whispering to her, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

As soon as she heard it, she jumped up and started to Jesus,

So the Jews who were with her in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw Mary jump up and go out, followed her, because they supposed that she was going to the grave to pour out her grief there.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw Him, she threw herself at His feet, and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

When a woman is in labor, she is in pain, for her time has come, but when the baby is born, she forgets her pain because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

So she ran away and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus tenderly loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him."

But Mary stood just outside the tomb and kept weeping. So, as she was weeping, she stooped down and peered into the tomb

And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put Him."

On saying 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? Whom are you looking for?" Because she supposed it was the gardener, she said to Him, "If it was you, sir, who carried Him away, tell me where you put Him, and I will remove Him."

Jesus said to her, "Mary!" At once she turned and said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" which means Teacher.

Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that He had told her this.

Peter said to her, "Tell me, did you sell the land for such and such a sum?" She answered, "Yes, that is it."