And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in years.

And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this, for *I* am an old man, and my wife advanced in years?

And there was a prophetess, Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of [the] tribe of Asher, who was far advanced in years, having lived with [her] husband seven years from her virginity,

and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;

And his parents went yearly to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.

And when he was twelve years old, and they went up [to Jerusalem] according to the custom of the feast

Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years old; being as was supposed son of Joseph; of Eli,

to preach [the] acceptable year of [the] Lord.

But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,

But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and [what is] more excellent than a prophet.

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. And as he went the crowds thronged him.

And a woman who had a flux of blood since twelve years, who, having spent all her living on physicians, could not be cured by any one,

In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes: yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.

But *he* said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep [it].

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear *him*.

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.

And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, [these] three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?

But he answering says to him, Sir, let it alone for this year also, until I shall dig about it and put dung,

And lo, [there was] a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to lift her head up.

And this [woman], who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, [these] eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends: