Book of Common Prayer

Sign 1: A Woman About To Give Birth

12 And a great sign appeared in heaven: there was a woman, having been clothed-with the sun, and the moon was under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head, ² and having a child in her womb. And she is crying-out, suffering-birth-pains and being-in-torment to give-birth.

Sign 2: A Red Dragon Tries To Devour The Woman And Her Newborn Son, But Fails

³ And another sign appeared in heaven. And behold— there was a great fire-red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems^[a] on his heads. ⁴ And his tail sweeps-away^[b] a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon is standing before the woman being about to give-birth, in order that when she gives-birth he might devour her child. ⁵ And she gave-birth to a Son, a male Child, Who is going to shepherd^[c] all the nations with an iron rod. And her Child was snatched-up to God, and to His throne. ⁶ And the woman fled into the wilderness^[d] where she has a place there having been prepared by God, in order that they^[e] might nourish^[f] her there for one-thousand two-hundred sixty days.

There Is a War In Heaven: The Dragon Is Thrown Down To Earth

⁷ And there was a war^[g] in heaven. Michael and his angels were to fight against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought. ⁸ And he did not prevail, nor was a place for them still found in heaven. ⁹ And the great dragon was thrown-down— the ancient serpent, the one being called the devil and Satan, the one deceiving the whole world— he was thrown-down to the earth. And his angels were thrown-down with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying “Now^[h] the salvation^[i] and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ came^[j], because the accuser of our brothers was thrown-down— the one accusing them before our God by day and by night. ¹¹ And they overcame^[k] him because-of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of ^[l] their testimony. And they did not love their life until^[m] death. ¹² For this reason— celebrate, heavens, and the ones dwelling in them. Woe for the land and the sea, because the devil went down to you having great fury, knowing that he has a short time”.

Jesus Again Creates Bread And Fish For a Group of 4000 Men

²⁹ And having passed on from there, Jesus went beside the Sea of Galilee. And having gone up on the mountain, He was sitting there. ³⁰ And large crowds came to Him, having with them lame ones, blind ones, crippled ones, mute ones, and many others. And they threw^[a] them at His feet. And He cured them, ³¹ so that the crowd marveled— seeing mute ones speaking, crippled ones healthy, and lame ones walking, and blind ones seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel. ³² And Jesus, having summoned His disciples, said, “I feel-deep-feelings [of compassion] toward the crowd, because it is already three days they are remaining-with Me and they do not have anything they may eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, so that they may not perhaps become-exhausted^[b] on the way”. ³³ And the disciples say to Him, “From where are there so many loaves for us in a desolate place so as to fill-to-satisfaction so large a crowd?” ³⁴ And Jesus says to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And the ones said, “Seven, and a few small-fish”. ³⁵ And having ordered the crowd to fall-back on the ground [to eat], ³⁶ He took the seven loaves and the fish. And having given-thanks, He broke them and was giving them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds. ³⁷ And they all ate and were filled-to-satisfaction. And they picked up the amount of the fragments being left-over— seven full large-baskets. ³⁸ And the ones eating were four-thousand men, apart from women and children.

The Pharisees Ask For a Sign From Heaven. No Sign Will Be Given Except Jonah’s

³⁹ And having sent away the crowds, He got into the boat and went to the districts of Magadan.