Luke 8:2

Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

A certain woman, who had a discharge of blood for twelve years,

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.

Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.

One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”

and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.

it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.

A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.

It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.

Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.

and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.