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.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

And I will say to myself, “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’

But the worker answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

But God spoke as follows: ‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you

and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

He seized the dragon – the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan – and tied him up for a thousand years.

(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection.

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, ‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’

Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”

but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!