But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren,<n id="1" /> and they were both very old.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old,<n id="1" /> having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

where for forty days he endured temptations<n id="1" /> from the devil. He<n id="2" /> ate nothing<n id="3" /> during those days, and when they were completed,<n id="4" /> he was famished.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> it was during this time that Jesus<n id="2" /> went out to the mountain<n id="3" /> to pray, and he spent all night<n id="4" /> in prayer to God.<n id="5" />

After<n id="1" /> the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So<n id="2" /> they kept silent and told no one<n id="3" /> at that time<n id="4" /> anything of what they had seen.p>

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress<n id="1" /> on the earth and wrath against this people.

When<n id="1" /> he learned that he was from Herod&#8217;s jurisdiction,<n id="2" /> he sent him over to Herod,<n id="3" /> who also happened to be in Jerusalem<n id="4" /> at that time.

Then the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;This temple has been under construction<n id="2" /> for forty-six years,<n id="3" /> and are you going to raise it up in three days?&#8221;

In those days<n id="1" /> Peter stood up among the believers<n id="2" /> (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>Even on my servants,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>both men and women,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesyb>.i><n id="2" />p>

At<n id="1" /> that time<n id="2" /> they made an idol in the form of a calf,<n id="3" /> brought<n id="4" /> a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing<n id="5" /> in the works of their hands.<n id="6" />

We sailed slowly<n id="1" /> for many days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus.<n id="2" /> Because the wind prevented us from going any farther,<n id="3" /> we sailed under the lee<n id="4" /> of Crete off Salmone.<n id="5" />

For in those days before the flood, people<n id="1" /> were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

and saying, &#8220;You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself!<n id="1" /> If you are God&#8217;s Son, come down<n id="2" /> from the cross!&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">During the reign<n id="1" /> of Herod<n id="2" /> king of Judea, there lived a priest named Zechariah who belonged to<n id="3" /> the priestly division of Abijah,<n id="4" /> and he had a wife named Elizabeth,<n id="5" /> who was a descendant of Aaron.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">Zechariah<n id="1" /> said to the angel, &#8220;How can I be sure of this?<n id="2" /> For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.&#8221;<n id="3" />

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.

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn&#8217;t know<n id="2" /> the things that have happened there<n id="3" /> in these days?&#8221;

After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census,<n id="1" /> and incited people to follow him in revolt.<n id="2" /> He too was killed, and all who followed him were scattered.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now in those<n id="1" /> days, when the disciples were growing in number,<n id="2" /> a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews<n id="3" /> against the native Hebraic Jews,<n id="4" /> because their widows<n id="5" /> were being overlooked<n id="6" /> in the daily distribution of food.<n id="7" />