Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and you shall call His name Emmanuel.

For a Child is born to us, and a Son is given to us, whose government is upon His shoulder; and His name is called the Messenger of great counsel; for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to Him.

[ 2:8] and I will shake all nations, and the choice [portions] of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King is coming to you, righteous, and [your] Savior; He is meek and riding on a donkey, a young foal of a donkey.

Behold, I send forth My messenger, and he shall survey the way before Me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come into His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, whom you take pleasure in: behold, He is coming, says the Lord Almighty.

"But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

For assuredly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous [men] desired to see what you see, and they did not see, and to hear what you hear, and they did not hear."

And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he should see the Lord's Christ.

he took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said:

for my eyes have seen Your salvation

a light for a revelation to the Gentiles, and a glory to Your people Israel."

And turning to His disciples He said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see what you see;

for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and they did not see [them], and to hear what you hear, and they did not hear."

And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among [the] Gentiles, believed on in the world, [and] was received up in glory.

For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

saying: "I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to You."

that you may feed and be satisfied with the consolation of her bosom; that you may drink deeply, and delight yourselves with the abundance of her glory.

For thus says the Lord: Behold, I turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles; their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.

but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

And no one has gone up into heaven except He who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would have loved Me, for I came forth and have come from God; nor have I come from Myself, but He sent Me.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

I came forth from the Father and I have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and I am going to the Father."

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, through the suffering of death, having been crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God, He might taste death for everyone.

For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

And again: "I will put My trust in Him." And again: "Behold I and the children to whom God has given Me."

since it would have been necessary [for] Him to suffer often from the foundation of the world; but now, once at the consummation of the ages, He has been revealed for the removal of sin through the sacrifice of Himself.

so also Christ having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation, to those eagerly waiting for Him.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for your breasts are better than wine.

Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you should perish from the righteous way. Whenever His wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in Him.

Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear; forget also your people, and your father's house.

Because the King has desired your beauty; for He is your Lord.

You gave Me no kiss, but this [woman] has not stopped kissing My feet since the time I came in.

For which reason I say to you, her many sins have been forgiven, because she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels.

"Also I say to you, whoever confesses Me before men, him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God.

The attendants answered them, "No man ever spoke like this Man!"

Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?

Nicodemus (he who came to Him by night, being one of them) said to them,

They answered and said to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search and see, because no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."

He answered and said, "Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One [thing] I do know: that although I was blind, now I see."

He answered them, "I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you wish to hear [it] again? Do you also want to become His disciples?"

We know that God has spoken to Moses; but [as for] this [Man], we do not know where He is from."

Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.

If this [Man] were not from God, He could do nothing."

Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and having found him, He said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

And Jesus said to him, "You have both seen Him and it is He who is speaking with you."

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For we are the [true] circumcision, worshipping by the Spirit of God, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh,

But such things as were gain to me, these I have considered loss for the sake of Christ.

More than that I also consider all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have sustained the loss of all things, and I consider them to be rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; a broken and humbled heart God will not despise.

For the Lord shall build up Zion, and shall appear in His glory.

He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.

Then one poor widow came and put in two lepta, which equals a quadrans.

For they all put in out of their excess, but this woman, out of her destitution, put in everything she had, her whole livelihood."

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has worked a beautiful work for Me.

This [woman] did what she could; she undertook beforehand to anoint My body for burial.

And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall come to you in fear; and you shall be called Zion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me."

Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the others:

And the base things of the world, and the things having been despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, in order that He might nullify the things which are,