For this is certain:<n id="1" /> The days are coming when they will say, &#8216;Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!&#8217;<n id="2" />

But the other rebuked him, saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Don&#8217;t<n id="2" /> you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?<n id="3" />

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, &#8220;Father, <b><i>into your hands I commit my spirit!i>b>&#8221;<n id="1" /> And after he said this he breathed his last.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now when the centurion<n id="1" /> saw what had happened, he praised God and said, &#8220;Certainly this man was innocent!&#8221;<n id="2" />

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.<n id="1" />

(He<n id="1" /> had not consented<n id="2" /> to their plan and action.) He<n id="3" /> was from the Judean town<n id="4" /> of Arimathea, and was looking forward to<n id="5" /> the kingdom of God.<n id="6" />

While<n id="1" /> they were perplexed<n id="2" /> about this, suddenly<n id="3" /> two men stood beside them in dazzling<n id="4" /> attire.

Now it was Mary Magdalene,<n id="1" /> Joanna,<n id="2" /> Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

So<n id="1" /> they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem.<n id="2" /> They<n id="3" /> found the eleven and those with them gathered together

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,<n id="1" /> when Pontius Pilate<n id="2" /> was governor of Judea, and Herod<n id="3" /> was tetrarch<n id="4" /> of Galilee, and his brother Philip<n id="5" /> was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias<n id="6" /> was tetrarch of Abilene,

<t /><p class="bodytext">While<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> was in one of the towns,<n id="3" /> a man came<n id="4" /> to him who was covered with<n id="5" /> leprosy.<n id="6" /> When<n id="7" /> he saw Jesus, he bowed down with his face to the ground<n id="8" /> and begged him,<n id="9" /> &#8220;Lord, if<n id="10" /> you are willing, you can make me clean.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now on<n id="1" /> one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees<n id="2" /> and teachers of the law<n id="3" /> sitting nearby (who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem),<n id="4" /> and the power of the Lord was with him<n id="5" /> to heal.

So<n id="1" /> Jesus went with them. When<n id="2" /> he was not far from the house, the centurion<n id="3" /> sent friends to say to him, &#8220;Lord, do not trouble yourself,<n id="4" /> for I am not worthy<n id="5" /> to have you come under my roof.

Now the day began to draw to a close,<n id="1" /> so<n id="2" /> the twelve came and said to Jesus,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging<n id="4" /> and food, because we are in an isolated place.&#8221;<n id="5" />

All things have been given to me by my Father.<n id="1" /> No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides<n id="2" /> to reveal him.&#8221;p>

When<n id="1" /> he came out, he was not able to speak to them. They<n id="2" /> realized that he had seen a vision<n id="3" /> in the holy place,<n id="4" /> because<n id="5" /> he was making signs to them and remained unable to speak.<n id="6" />

When<n id="1" /> Elizabeth heard Mary&#8217;s greeting, the baby leaped<n id="2" /> in her<n id="3" /> womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.<n id="4" />

All<n id="1" /> who heard these things<n id="2" /> kept them in their hearts,<n id="3" /> saying, &#8220;What then will this child be?&#8221;<n id="4" /> For the Lord&#8217;s hand<n id="5" /> was indeed with him.p>

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth<n id="1" /> and laid him in a manger,<n id="2" /> because there was no place for them in the inn.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">At<n id="1" /> the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel<n id="2" /> before he was conceived in the womb.p>