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.

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.

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.”

Now after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying,

to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child.

But Herod the tetrarch, being rebuked by him concerning Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,

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.

and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who provided for Him from their substance.

Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’

“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.

“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Remember Lot’s wife.

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,

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.

Now there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and died without children.

And the second took her as wife, and he died childless.

Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife does she become? For all seven had her as wife.”