“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Miriam said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.

Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

But standing by Yeshua’s cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Miriam the wife of Klofah, and Miriam Magdalene.

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.