The angel came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one, the Lord is with you!”

He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant –

So they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said,

In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.

Then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud with power and great glory.

But Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him.

But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Now about eight days after these sayings, Jesus took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up the mountain to pray.

A spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions and causes him to foam at the mouth. It hardly ever leaves him alone, torturing him severely.

Then the seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name!”

“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

Now there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place.

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,