For nothing will be impossible with God.”

“Now, according to your word, Sovereign Lord, permit your servant to depart in peace.

Yet his parents did not understand the remark he made to them.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

So Mary said, “Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us.”