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John’s Birth Announced to Zacharias
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
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But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
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And Zacharias said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”
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Now after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying,
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to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child.
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But Herod the tetrarch, being rebuked by him concerning Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
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Peter’s Mother-in-Law Healed
Now He arose from the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. But Simon’s wife’s mother was sick with a high fever, and they made request of Him concerning her.
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and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who provided for Him from their substance.
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Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
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“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
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“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.
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Remember Lot’s wife.
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So He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
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saying: “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
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Now there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and died without children.
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And the second took her as wife, and he died childless.
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Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife does she become? For all seven had her as wife.”