This is the first and greatest commandment.

Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, “Do not weep.”

but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her.

“And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age – although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

“It was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’

And the news of this spread throughout that region.

so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

Jesus said to them, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?”

The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

When the disciples saw this, they became indignant and said, “Why this waste?

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled.”

This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.