But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.’

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

She exclaimed with a loud voice, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

There was a great commotion, and some experts in the law from the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more – or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.”