He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

and were continually in the temple courts blessing God.

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, “Get up and stand here.” So he rose and stood there.

When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him. He turned and said to the crowd that followed him, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith!”

They came and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are about to die!” So he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they died down, and it was calm.

For Jesus had started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)

The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever else you spend, I will repay you when I come back this way.’

Now while Zechariah was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,

But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.

So the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God!

They said to her, “But none of your relatives bears this name.”

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.

While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.

Suddenly a vast, heavenly army appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),

and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. And while he was praying, the heavens opened,

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,

So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.