The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.

Brothers and sisters: It is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins.

The Lord spoke to Ahaz, saying: Ask for a sign from the Lord, your God; let it be deep as the nether world, or high as the sky!

Jesus said to the Pharisees: “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin.

From Mount Hor the children of Israel set out on the Red Sea road, to bypass the land of Edom.

In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim, who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah; her pious parents had trained their daughter according to the law of Moses.

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Thus says the Lord God: O my people, I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel.

Brothers and sisters: Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

[Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. So] the sisters (of Lazarus) sent word to Jesus saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.