Then<n id="1" /> the women remembered his words,<n id="2" />

For nothing<n id="1" /> will be impossible with God.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Now, according to your word,<n id="1" /> Sovereign Lord,<n id="2" /> permit<n id="3" /> your servant<n id="4" /> to depart<n id="5" /> in peace.p>

Yet<n id="1" /> his parents<n id="2" /> did not understand<n id="3" /> the remark<n id="4" /> he made<n id="5" /> to them.

But these words seemed like pure nonsense<n id="1" /> to them, and they did not believe them.

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning<n id="1" /> had been concealed<n id="2" /> from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet<n id="3" /> they were afraid to ask him about this statement.p>

When<n id="1" /> they saw him,<n id="2" /> they related what they had been told<n id="3" /> about this child,

But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering in her heart what they might mean.<n id="1" />

during the high priesthood<n id="1" /> of Annas and Caiaphas, the word<n id="2" /> of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After Jesus<n id="1" /> had finished teaching all this to the people,<n id="2" /> he entered Capernaum.<n id="3" />

Thus<n id="1" /> they were unable in the presence of the people to trap<n id="2" /> him with his own words.<n id="3" /> And stunned<n id="4" /> by his answer, they fell silent.p>

So<n id="1" /> Mary said, &#8220;Yes,<n id="2" /> I am a servant<n id="3" /> of the Lord; let this happen to me<n id="4" /> according to your word.&#8221;<n id="5" /> Then<n id="6" /> the angel departed from her.p>

All<n id="1" /> their neighbors were filled with fear, and throughout the entire hill country of Judea all these things were talked about.

Simon<n id="1" /> answered,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Master,<n id="3" /> we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word<n id="4" /> I will lower<n id="5" /> the nets.&#8221;

But<n id="1" /> the twelve<n id="2" /> understood none of these things. This<n id="3" /> saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp<n id="4" /> what Jesus meant.<n id="5" />p>

Then<n id="1" /> he went down with them and came to Nazareth,<n id="2" /> and was obedient<n id="3" /> to them. But<n id="4" /> his mother kept all these things<n id="5" /> in her heart.<n id="6" />p>

Then<n id="1" /> the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord,<n id="2" /> how he had said to him, &#8220;Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, &#8220;Let us go over to Bethlehem<n id="2" /> and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord<n id="3" /> has made known to us.&#8221;