17 For I assure you: Many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see yet didn’t see them; to hear the things you hear yet didn’t hear them.(A)

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12 Also, if she divorces her husband(A) and marries another, she commits adultery.”

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Anna’s Testimony

36 There was also a prophetess,(A) Anna, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher.(B) She was well along in years,[a] having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,[b](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 2:36 Lit in many days
  2. Luke 2:36 Lit years from her virginity

35 And if they want to learn something, they should ask their own husbands(A) at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church meeting.

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For I am jealous(A) over you with a godly jealousy,(B) because I have promised you in marriage to one husband—to present a pure(C) virgin to Christ.

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27 For it is written:(A)

Rejoice, childless woman,(B)
who does not give birth.
Burst into song and shout,
you who are not in labor,
for the children of the desolate are many,
more numerous than those
of the woman who has a husband.(C)[a]

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