<p class="poetry">He has helped his servant Israel, remembering<n id="1" /> his mercy,<n id="2" />p>

He<n id="1" /> will turn<n id="2" /> many of the people<n id="3" /> of Israel to the Lord their God.

<p class="poetry">a light,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for revelation to the Gentiles,p> <p class="poetry">and for glory<n id="2" /> to your people Israel.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Blessed<n id="1" /> be the Lord God of Israel,p> <p class="poetry">because he has come to help<n id="2" /> and has redeemed<n id="3" /> his people.p>

<p class="bodytext">And the child kept growing<n id="1" /> and becoming strong<n id="2" /> in spirit, and he was in the wilderness<n id="3" /> until the day he was revealed<n id="4" /> to Israel.p>

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha,<n id="1" /> yet<n id="2" /> none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.&#8221;<n id="3" />

that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit<n id="1" /> on thrones judging<n id="2" /> the twelve tribes of Israel.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> there was a man in Jerusalem<n id="2" /> named Simeon who was righteous<n id="3" /> and devout, looking for the restoration<n id="4" /> of Israel, and the Holy Spirit<n id="5" /> was upon him.

Then<n id="1" /> Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, &#8220;Listen carefully:<n id="2" /> This child<n id="3" /> is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising<n id="4" /> of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.<n id="5" />

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah&#8217;s days,<n id="1" /> when the sky<n id="2" /> was shut up three and a half years, and<n id="3" /> there was a great famine over all the land.

When Jesus heard this, he was amazed<n id="1" /> at him. He turned and said to the crowd that followed him, &#8220;I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith!&#8221;<n id="2" />

But we had hoped<n id="1" /> that he was the one who was going to redeem<n id="2" /> Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.