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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.

Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombIncarnationMothers, Examples OfOne FleshProphecies Concerning ChristEngagementConceptionCalendarsThe Holy Spirit Giving LifeAbsence Of SexMiraculous BirthsNativity of Jesus ChristJesus BirthRelationships With BoyfriendHaving A Babyghostsbabyvirginity

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.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordDocetismCommunicationDreamsGod, Revelation OfHeaven And AngelsFear, Of UnknownAngels Helping UsThe Holy Spirit Giving LifeConceptionGod AppearingTaking A WifeDirect Communication Through DreamsNativity of Jesus ChristWorry And StressResolving Conflictgabriel

"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."

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofMourningVoicesLamentingPeople Passing AwayMourning DeathNo ComfortDeathDeath Of A Child

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."

Verse ConceptsFeetChildren, examples ofBowingKneelingChildren, In Jesus MiraclesLaying On Hands To HealWhile Still SpeakingDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThose Jesus HealedChildren In The Miracles Of Jesus Christ

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

Verse ConceptsCertaintyTouching For HealingJesus HealingFaith And Healing

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!

Verse ConceptsQueensSolomon, Character OfSouthOld Testament People As TypesGreatness Of ChristThe Final JudgementPeople From Far AwayThe Dead Are RaisedJudgmentsJudgement DayJudgementcondemnation

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

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersPeople Promising

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

Verse ConceptsSkullsPots For Cooking And Eating

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

Verse ConceptsFeetBowingKneelingCrying To JesusGod Help!

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

Verse ConceptsCrumbsTablesHumility, Examples OfRemaining FoodNoting What Animals EatPetspoop

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."

Verse ConceptsAmbition, negative aspects ofLove, Abuse OfSelfishness, Shown InUnwise PrayersTwo SonsRight DesiresMothers And SonsUnconditional Love

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.

Verse ConceptsAbelAbel and CainBlood, Figurative UseMartyrdom, Examples OfSheddingResponsibility For Blood ShedKilling ProphetsKilling Named IndividualsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

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

Verse ConceptsCommendationChrist Knowing About PeopleDo Not HinderWomen's Beauty

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

Verse ConceptsThe DeadBurials, FeaturesOintmentPerfumePreparation For 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."

Verse ConceptsMemoriesMemorialProphecies Said By JesusMemorials For PeopleThe Gospel PreachedTelling What People DidWhereverpreachingmathremembrance

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.

Verse ConceptsHealingTaking By The HandThose Jesus Healedministering

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."

Verse ConceptsDeath, Means OfBad ParentsLove, And The WorldParents Duty To ChildrenParental LoveKept Alive By MenLaying On Hands To HealHow Healing CameFaith And HealingHealth And Healing

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,

Verse ConceptsBecoming PoorWorse

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

Verse ConceptsCertaintyOuter GarmentsTouching For HealingSoliloquyHow Healing Came

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.

Verse ConceptsFear, Of UnknownSelf KnowledgeIndividuals TremblingBowing Before MessiahFear Of Christ

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

Verse ConceptsAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesAstonishmentThe Healed WalkingPeople Getting Up

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

Verse ConceptsRemoving Heads

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."

Verse ConceptseagernessSuddenlyRemoving HeadsSkullsHasty ActionPots For Cooking And Eating

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.

Verse Conceptsdemons, Kinds ofBeggarsGreeksLove, And The WorldJesus Casting Out Demons

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

Verse ConceptsTablesFrugalityRemaining FoodNoting What Animals EatPets

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

Verse ConceptsBedsLying Down To RestThose Jesus Healed

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

Verse ConceptsAdulterersAdultery and DivorceWivesDivorceadultry

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

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenMarriage No MoreTransferring WivesThe Resurrection

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."

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfSurplusBlessings Of The PoorGiving Money To The ChurchThe poorGiving

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.

Verse ConceptsGuestsHeadsHospitality, Examples OfMealsOintmentPerfumeA Broken WomanTablesWitnessing, Approaches ToRecreationHospitality Towards ChristBoxesBreaking ContainersReclining To EatStone ItemsExpensiveReceiving Jesus As A Guest

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

Verse ConceptsLeave Them AloneTroubling Individuals

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."

Verse ConceptsMemorials For PeopleThe Gospel PreachedTelling What People DidWhereverremembrance

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

Verse ConceptsWarmingChrist With People On Earth

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

Verse ConceptsMourning The Death Of ChristTelling Of Jesusgrieving

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

Verse ConceptsConceptionFive Months And MoreHiding From PeopleMonthsHaving A Babyluck

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

Verse ConceptsTrouble, Causes OfPuzzlementSpoken Greetings

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.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesJohn The BaptistOld Age, Attainment OfChildlessnessMonth 6Relatives

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

Verse ConceptsEntering HousesSpoken Greetings

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

Verse ConceptsHaving A Baby

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.

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightFasting, Practice OfFasting, Nature OfFasting, Examples OfAsceticism, TypesNightPrayerfulnessPrayer, Practicalities OfReligionSleeplessnessWidowsActual WidowsFasting RegularlyFastingFasting And PrayerServing The ChurchWaiting Till Marriage

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.

Verse ConceptsMessianic HopeTelling Of JesusThanks For Christ

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.

Verse ConceptsHealingFeverPeople Getting UpReproving ThingsThose Jesus Healedrebuking

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.

Verse ConceptsGatesCrowdsLonelinessWidowsCrowds Around JesusThe Only ChildCarrying Dead BodiesOnly Child Of PeopleActual WidowsCorpses Of Other PeopleDeath Of A Mother

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

Verse ConceptsOintmentBoxesReclining To Eat

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.

Verse ConceptsKissing ChristAffection, ExpressingAnointing With OilHairsKissingPainWeepingMealsMoist ThingsPeople Drying Things UpClean FeetCare Of FeetOther References To HairOthers Mourning

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."

Verse ConceptsSinnersUncharitablenessChrist Knowing About PeopleSoliloquyWho Is This?What Kind?Jesus The Prophet

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.

Verse ConceptsFoot washingFeetFeet WashingGuestsWaterMealsDiscourtesyMan Providing WaterMoist ThingsPeople Drying Things UpClean FeetCare Of FeetOther References To 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.

Verse ConceptsKissing ChristMealsKissesCare Of Feet

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."

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature OfLove For GodReceived OutcastsGod Has ForgivenNot Loving GodForgivenessLove And Forgiveness

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.

Verse ConceptsTremblingIndividuals TremblingTouching For HealingBowing Before MessiahHow Healing CamePeople Made KnownTelling What People DidWhy People Did Things

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

Verse ConceptsLamentingMourningSorrowDo Not MournMourning The Death Of Others

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

Verse ConceptsLaughterDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsKnowing FactsMocking Christ

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

Verse ConceptsSpirit, Nature OfSpiritsPeople Getting UpPeople Providing Food

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

Verse ConceptsFeetListeningSittingSitting At The FeetHearing ChristChrist TeachingIdentityIdentity In Christdistractions

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."

Verse ConceptsBusynessCriticism, against believersImpatienceDiscourtesyActing AloneServing ChristComplaintsServingSiblingsWorryingServing GodDoing The Right ThingServing The Churchluckdistractionscookinghelping

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.

Verse ConceptsQueensSouthGreatness Of ChristThe Final JudgementPeople From Far AwayThe Dead Are Raised

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 --

Verse ConceptsMartyrdom, Examples OfSheddingReckoningFrom The BeginningResponsibility

"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?

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsSeeking For Concrete ThingsFinding ThingsSweepinglosing a loved oneMissing SomeoneLosing A FriendLosing FriendsBeing Lostwomanwomanhood

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!'

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsGathering FriendsRejoicing In SuccessLosing A FriendLosing Friends

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."

Verse ConceptsHeartlessnessTroubling IndividualsPersistenceperserverancehelptirednaggingvindicationharassment

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."

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfSacrificial GivingSurplusBlessings Of The Poor

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

Verse ConceptsDullnessDeep ThingsDrawing WaterNot EquippedWomen's Strength

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

Verse ConceptsSin, Accepting Forgiveness OfReceived OutcastsNo CondemnationForgiving Yourselfcondemnation

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

Verse ConceptsVisitingMeeting PeopleSitting In Dejection

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

Verse ConceptsChrist SummoningOthers SummoningBringing Men To Jesus

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

Verse ConceptsSpeedComing To ChristPeople Getting Up

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.

Verse ConceptsMourningComfort, Of FriendsSpeedPeople Following PeoplePeople Getting UpMourning The Death Of Others

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."

Verse ConceptsGesturesFeetThe Presence Of ChristNot DyingBowing Before MessiahDeath Prevented

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.

Verse ConceptsAgony, Of BodyChild BearingChildbirthAnguish, CauseTravailLabour PainsBirthRejoicing In ProsperityHaving A Babybabyhurtingwomanhoodchildbearing

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.

Verse ConceptsLord's Day, TheSundayStonesThe First Day Of The WeekThe Act Of OpeningOpening PitsJesus TombDarkness Of NightThose Who Rose EarlyPerspective

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."

Verse ConceptsInsightLack Of InsightThe Beloved DiscipleIndividuals RunningNot Knowing WhereChrist's LoveOther References To The DisciplesTaking Christ

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

Verse ConceptsSorrowUnhappinessWeepingCrouchingJesus TombMourning The Death Of Christ

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."

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing WhereTaking Christ

On saying this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

Verse ConceptsTurning RoundSeeing The Risen ChristNot Knowing About Christrecognition

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."

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofHorticultureLordship, Human And DivineCarrying Dead BodiesTaking ChristWhere Are People?

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

Verse ConceptsLanguagesRabbi

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

Verse ConceptsAssenting