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24 But a voice called out to her me arrogant or wicked. Blessed
from below, ‘Do not despair. was I on the day I was born, and
Your Lord has provided a brook blessed I shall be on the day I die
that runs at your feet, 25 and if and on the day I am raised to life
you shake the trunk of this palm- again.’
tree, it will drop fresh ripe dates 34 Such was Jesus, the son of
on you. 26 Eat and drink and Mary. That is the whole truth,
rejoice. And if you see any human about which they still dispute:
being say, “I have vowed a fast 35 it does not befit the majesty of
[of silence] to the Gracious God, God that He should beget a son.
and will not speak with any Glory be to Him! He is far above
human being today.”’ that: when He decrees something,
27 Carrying her child, she He says only, ‘Be!’ and it is.
brought him to her people. They 36 God is my Lord and your
said, ‘O Mary, you have indeed Lord, so worship Him alone.
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done something terrible! Sister That is the right path. 37 Yet
of Aaron, your father was not an different groups differed among
evil man, nor was your mother themselves. How awful it will be
an unchaste woman!’ for those who have rejected the
29 She pointed to the child. truth when a dreadful Day
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They said, ‘How shall we talk to arrives! How sharp of hearing,
someone who is a child in the how sharp of sight they will be
cradle?’ 30 [But] he said, ‘I am when they come to Us. But today,
God’s servant. He has given me these evil-doers are obviously
the Book and made me a prophet; lost in error.
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He has made me blessed Warn them of [the coming
wherever I may be, and has of] the Day of Remorse, when
enjoined upon me prayer and everything will have been
almsgiving throughout my life. decided, while they are heedless
32 He has made me dutiful toward and do not believe. 40 It is We
my mother, and He has not made who will inherit the earth and all