Seeing that many have taken it in hand to draw up an account of those matters which have been fully established among us, just as they reported them to us, who were from beginning eye-witnesses and ministers of the word, read more. it seemed good to me also accurately, from the very beginning, to write them to you in order, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the story which you have been taught by the word of mouth.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

And they all spoke well of him, and marveled at the words of charm that fell from his lips. "Is not this the son of Joseph?" they asked.

They were deeply impressed by his teaching because his speech was with authority.

"Do you therefore be merciful, As your Father is merciful.

He also told them a parable. "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

"There were once to men," said Jesus, "in debt to one money-lender. One owed him fifty pounds; the other five.

So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered, "Legion" (for many demons had entered into him).

"You know not what kind of spirit you share, for the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." And they went to another village.

"And whatever town you come to, and they receive you, eat whatever they put before you.

"When one lights a lamp he does not put it in a cellar nor under the bushel, but on a lamp-stand that those who enter may see the light.

"Better cleanse what is within, and nothing will be unclean for you.

"Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God!

He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

"And the next came to him and said, 'Here master is your pound which I was keeping safe in a napkin.

"So be on your guard at all times, praying that you may be worthy to escape these things that shall come to pass, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of man."

And he took a loaf, and after giving thanks, he broke it and gave it to them saying. "This is my body, which is given for you; this do in remembrance of me.' He gave them a cup in like manner, after supper saying. "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, poured out for your sake.

saying, "The Lord is really risen, and has appeared to Simon!"

and he said: "Thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead, the third day;

"how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about everywhere doing good, and curing all who were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.

explaining and quoting passages to prove that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise again from the dead and that "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming unto you is the Messiah."

and are confident that you yourself are a darkness,

My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

If one who is not a believer invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat everything that is set before you, without asking questions for conscience sake.

For I passed on to you the account, which I myself received from the Lord; how the Lord Jesus, on the very night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, saying, "This is my body, broken for you; this do in memory of me." read more. In the same way also, he took the cup after supper, saying. "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming your Lord's death until he come. So he that eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthy must answer for a sin against the body and blood of the Lord. Let each man scrutinize himself, and thus let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For whoever eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks condemnation to himself.

and was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve.

Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,

If, however, I were to boast more loudly concerning the authority which the Lord gave me (not to cast you down, but to build you up), I should have no cause for shame.

Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Let your speech be always gracious, with a savor of salt, and learn how to give every man a fitting answer.

To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith;

All things are pure to the pure; but to the contaminated and the faithless nothing is pure, nay, their very minds and consciences are tainted.

Then he made his disciples get aboard the boat and precede him to the other side, while he sent away the crowds.

Then they realized that he had not told them to beware of the leaven, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

When they could not get him near to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof under which he stood, and after making an opening, they let down the cot on which the paralytic was lying.

Then he at once compelled the disciples to embark in the boat and go before him to Bethsaida on the other side, while he sent the people away.

Then Jesus sent him home, saying, "Do not even go into the village."

He who is not against us is for us.

Now people were bringing little children to Jesus for him to touch them; but the disciples rebuked them.

"But when you see the Abomination of Desolation 'standing where he ought not' (let the reader ponder this), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains;

Seeing that many have taken it in hand to draw up an account of those matters which have been fully established among us,

Seeing that many have taken it in hand to draw up an account of those matters which have been fully established among us,

Seeing that many have taken it in hand to draw up an account of those matters which have been fully established among us,

Seeing that many have taken it in hand to draw up an account of those matters which have been fully established among us,

Seeing that many have taken it in hand to draw up an account of those matters which have been fully established among us, just as they reported them to us, who were from beginning eye-witnesses and ministers of the word,

just as they reported them to us, who were from beginning eye-witnesses and ministers of the word,

just as they reported them to us, who were from beginning eye-witnesses and ministers of the word, it seemed good to me also accurately, from the very beginning, to write them to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,

it seemed good to me also accurately, from the very beginning, to write them to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,

it seemed good to me also accurately, from the very beginning, to write them to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,

it seemed good to me also accurately, from the very beginning, to write them to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,

it seemed good to me also accurately, from the very beginning, to write them to you in order, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the story which you have been taught by the word of mouth.

so that you may know the certainty of the story which you have been taught by the word of mouth.

so that you may know the certainty of the story which you have been taught by the word of mouth. In the reign of Herod, King of Judea, there was a certain priest, named Zachariah, belonging to the class of Abijah. He had a wife named Elizabeth,

In the reign of Herod, King of Judea, there was a certain priest, named Zachariah, belonging to the class of Abijah. He had a wife named Elizabeth,

In the reign of Herod, King of Judea, there was a certain priest, named Zachariah, belonging to the class of Abijah. He had a wife named Elizabeth,

In the reign of Herod, King of Judea, there was a certain priest, named Zachariah, belonging to the class of Abijah. He had a wife named Elizabeth,

In the reign of Herod, King of Judea, there was a certain priest, named Zachariah, belonging to the class of Abijah. He had a wife named Elizabeth,

In the reign of Herod, King of Judea, there was a certain priest, named Zachariah, belonging to the class of Abijah. He had a wife named Elizabeth,

"And blessed is she who believed that the Lord's words spoken to her would be fulfilled."

"Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, For he has visited and redeemed his people,

In those days Augustus Caesar issued an edict for a census of the whole inhabited world.

In those days Augustus Caesar issued an edict for a census of the whole inhabited world. This was the first census, When Quirinius was governor of Syria.

And Jesus was ever advancing in wisdom and in status and in favor with God and man.

And Jesus was ever advancing in wisdom and in status and in favor with God and man.

And Jesus was ever advancing in wisdom and in status and in favor with God and man.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene;

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene;

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene;

Every ravine shall be filled up, Every hill and mountain shall be laid low, The crooked shall be made straight, And the rough roads smooth;

"I tell you in solemn truth," he added, "that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

So he continued to preach in the synagogues of Galilee.

So they went up on the roof, and let him down through the tiling, with his bed, into the crowd, before Jesus.

Levi also made him a great reception at his house. There was a large party of tax-gatherers and others who were dining with them.

Philip and Bartholomew; Mathew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot;

The whole crowd were trying to touch him, because power emanated from him and cured them all.

To him who gives you a blow on the jaw Turn the other jaw also; And from him who is robbing you of your cloak Withhold not your coat also.

And the report of what Jesus had done went forth throughout Judea and the surrounding regions.

One of the Pharisees kept urging him to dine, so he entered the house and reclined at table.

and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who used to minister to him out of their substance.

Then he called the Twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to heal;

But they did not understand this saying; it was hidden from them so that they perceived it not, and they were sore afraid to ask him about his saying.

But Jesus said, "Forbid him not, for he who is not against you is for you." When now when the time drew near for him to be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,

When now when the time drew near for him to be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,

"Leave the dead to bury their own dead," said Jesus to him, "go you and announce, far and wide the kingdom of God."

After this the appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two before his face, into every city and place into which he himself intended to go.

But he, determined to justify himself, said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbor?" Jesus answered.

"Give us day by day our bread for the coming day;

"And people shall come from the Orient and from the Occident, from the north and from the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.

"I tell you that this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself shall be humbled; but he who humbles himself shall be exalted." And they kept bringing their babies for him to touch them; but when his disciples saw it they began to rebuke them.

And they kept bringing their babies for him to touch them; but when his disciples saw it they began to rebuke them.

As soon as Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Come down quickly, Zaccheus, for today I must stay at your house."

When he had so spoken he went on before, going up to Jerusalem. When he was come near Bethphage and Bethany at the mount called The Olive Orchard,

Then Jesus went into the Temple and began to drive out dealers,

Day after day he continued to teach in the Temple. The high priests and scribes tried to have him put to death, so did the rulers of the people.

"But when you see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.

"But when you see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.

"But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, lift your heads! for your redemption is drawing near."

Now the festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was drawing near.

And when the hour was come he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him,

And there arose also a dispute among them as to which of them could be considered the greatest,

But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee."

When they came to the place called "The Skull," there they crucified him and the criminals also, one upon his right hand, and one upon his left.

My first account, O Theophilus, dealt with all that Jesus began doing and teaching from the beginning down to the day when,

On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were accustomed to meet. They were Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judea, in Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,

and they stedfastly continued in the teaching of the apostles, and in the fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers.

"Years ago Theudas arose, claiming to be somebody, and was joined by about four hundred men. He was killed, and all of his followers dispersed and annihilated.

"Years ago Theudas arose, claiming to be somebody, and was joined by about four hundred men. He was killed, and all of his followers dispersed and annihilated. "After him Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some of the people after him. He also perished, and all his followers were scattered.

"After him Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some of the people after him. He also perished, and all his followers were scattered.

"you know the message spread throughout all Judea, beginning in Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

Now the apostles and the brothers that were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God;

One of them, who was Agabus, rose up, and being instructed by the Spirit, predicted that a great famine was about to come upon the whole inhabited earth. (It came in the reign of Claudius.) So the disciples decided to send relief, every man according to his means, to the brothers in Judea.

The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.

Here he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife, Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome.

But after two full years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and because he wished to curry favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul still in prison.

But after two full years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and because he wished to curry favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul still in prison.

After this Paul lived for two whole years in his own rented house, and used to receive all who came to see him.