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"Look what the Lord has done for me! My people were ashamed of me, but now the Lord has taken away that shame."

But Mary was very startled by what the angel said and wondered what this greeting might mean.

Now Elizabeth, your relative, is also pregnant with a son though she is very old. Everyone thought she could not have a baby, but she has been pregnant for six months.

but his mother said, "No! He will be named John."

The people said to Elizabeth, "But no one in your family has this name."

But Mary treasured these things and continued to think about them.

Then her husband died, and she was a widow for eighty-four years. Anna never left the Temple but worshiped God, going without food and praying day and night.

After the feast days were over, they started home. The boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

But they did not understand the meaning of what he said.

Jesus went with them to Nazareth and was obedient to them. But his mother kept in her mind all that had happened.

John answered everyone, "I baptize you with water, but there is one coming who is greater than I am. I am not good enough to untie his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

He will come ready to clean the grain, separating the good grain from the chaff. He will put the good part of the grain into his barn, but he will burn the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out."

But John spoke against Herod, the governor, because of his sin with Herodias, the wife of Herod's brother, and because of the many other evil things Herod did.

Jesus answered, "But it also says in the Scriptures: ‘Do not test the Lord your God.'"

But I tell you the truth, there were many widows in Israel during the time of Elijah. It did not rain in Israel for three and one-half years, and there was no food anywhere in the whole country.

But Elijah was sent to none of those widows, only to a widow in Zarephath, a town in Sidon.

And there were many with skin diseases living in Israel during the time of the prophet Elisha. But none of them were healed, only Naaman, who was from the country of Syria."

but Jesus walked through the crowd and went on his way.

Demons came out of many people, shouting, "You are the Son of God." But Jesus commanded the demons and would not allow them to speak, because they knew Jesus was the Christ.

At daybreak, Jesus went to a lonely place, but the people looked for him. When they found him, they tried to keep him from leaving.