it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus;

And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense.

And he asked for a tablet and wrote as follows, “His name is John.” And they were all astonished.

Indeed the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.

And Jesus answering them said, “Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

On another Sabbath He entered the synagogue and was teaching; and there was a man there whose right hand was withered.

When the messengers of John had left, He began to speak to the crowds about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

“The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell beside the road, and it was trampled under foot and the birds of the air ate it up.

Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved.

Those on the rocky soil are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no firm root; they believe for a while, and in time of temptation fall away.

The people went out to see what had happened; and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting down at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they became frightened.

As they were going along the road, someone said to Him, “I will follow You wherever You go.”

And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?”

And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

“And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?

And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

As Jesus was approaching Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.

As He was going, they were spreading their coats on the road.

and they questioned Him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should marry the wife and raise up children to his brother.

For David himself says in the book of Psalms,
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,

And one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

When they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”

They began to relate their experiences on the road and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.