Then he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

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.

Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby (who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, “Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place.”

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

Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God.

When morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

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

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

“This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people.”

When his time of service was over, he went to his home.

During the reign of Herod king of Judea, there lived a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and he had a wife named Elizabeth, who was a descendant of Aaron.

After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So they kept silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen.

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

Jesus replied, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me.”

Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.

Then they returned and prepared aromatic spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.