and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”

So he said to them, “You foolish people – how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

When he had taken his place at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

He will turn many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God.

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

And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me?

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

And Mary said, “My soul exalts the Lord,

and my spirit has begun to rejoice in God my Savior,

because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name;

he has filled the hungry with good things, and has sent the rich away empty.

Now the time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son.

But his mother replied, “No! He must be named John.”

For he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us.

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

in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.

Everyone went to his own town to be registered.