As a number of attempts have been made to put together in order an account of those events which took place among us,

exactly as these have been handed down to us by the original eyewitnesses who were in the service of the Gospel Message,

that thou mightest know the certainty of those things in which thou hast been instructed.

But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will call his name John.

And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

And the angel, answering, said, I am Gabriel, whose place is before God; I have been sent to say these words to you and to give you this good news.

"This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people."

to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

And the angel came in to her and said, Peace be with you, to whom special grace has been given; the Lord is with you.

Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?”

And, happy, is she who hath believed, that there shall be a perfecting of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!

And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.

as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began;

without fear from the hand of our enemies, having been saved to serve him

to enroll himself along with Mary, the wife having been betrothed to him, being in an advanced state of pregnancy.

for to-day a Saviour has been born to you in David's city, who is Christ the Lord.

And when the angels went from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let us go to Bethlehem, and see this which hath been told us, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

And when they saw it, they gave them an account of the things which had been said to them about the child.

And all who heard [it] were astonished concerning what had been said to them by the shepherds.

Then the keepers of the sheep went back, giving glory and praise to God for all the things which had come to their ears and which they had seen, as it had been said to them.

And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called Jesus, which was the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

as it hath been written in the Law of the Lord, -- 'Every male opening a womb shall be called holy to the Lord,'

and to offer a sacrifice according to that which has been written in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons.

And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit [that he would] not see death before he would see the Lord's Christ.

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

As soon as all that the law required had been done, they returned to Galilee to their own town, Nazareth.

For they supposed he had been in the company, and therefore came a day's journey, and sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.

And when they saw him they were surprised, and his mother said to him, Son, why have you done this to us? see, your father and I have been looking for you with sorrow.

"Why is it that you have been searching for me?" He replied; "did you not know that it is my duty to be engaged upon my Father's business?"

as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, 'A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths;

Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

And he said to them, Collect not one thing more than from what has been appointed for you.

But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him concerning Herodias, his brother's wife, and concerning all the evil deeds that Herod had done,

Now it came about that when all the people had been given baptism, Jesus, having had baptism with them, was in prayer, when, the heaven being open,

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River [i.e., where He had been immersed. See 3:21] and was led by the Holy Spirit [See Matt. 4:1] into the desert.

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

And Jesus made answer to him, It has been said in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need.

And the Evil One said, I will give you authority over all these, and the glory of them, for it has been given to me, and I give it to anyone at my pleasure.

And Jesus in answer said to him, It has been said in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God, and be his servant only.

for it hath been written -- To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

And Jesus answered him, "It has been said, 'You must not try the Lord your God.'"

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading.

and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written:

"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,

And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

And he said unto them, Ye will probably say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself! the works which we have heard to have been performed by thee at Capernaum, do the like here in thy own country.

And having risen up, they thrust him outside of the city, and brought him as far as the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw him down headlong.

And it having been day, having gone forth he went into a deserted place: and the crowds sought him, and came to him, and detained him not to go from them.

But he said to them, I must needs announce the glad tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for for this I have been sent forth.

And Simon answered and said unto Him, Master, we have been toiling all the night, and have caught nothing; however at thy word I will cast the net.

And lo, men bearing upon a couch a man, who hath been struck with palsy, and they were seeking to bring him in, and to place before him,

and he having seen their faith, said to him, 'Man, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

which is easier -- to say, Thy sins have been forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, and walk?

And immediately he stood up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, [and] went away to his home, glorifying God.

But days will come when also the bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then shall they fast in those days.

so no-body that has been drinking old wine, will immediately call for new: for 'tis his maxim, "the old is best."

But unhappy are you who have wealth: for you have been comforted now.

Woe to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. 'Woe to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.

A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been well builded.

And [when they] returned to the house, those who had been sent found the slave healthy.

The man who had been dead sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

And fear seized on all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has been raised up amongst us; and God has visited his people.

This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.

I tell you, no one has ever been born who is greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

(And all the people, [when they] heard [this]--even the tax collectors--affirmed the righteousness of God, [because they] had been baptized [with] the baptism of John,

but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, [because they] had not been baptized by him.)

and wisdom has been justified of all her children.

And behold a woman in the city, who had been a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at table in the Pharisee's house,

And stood at his feet behind, weeping, been to wet his feet with tears, and wiped with the hairs of her head; and she kissed his feet, and anointed with the perfumed oil.

But the Pharisee who had invited him, seeing it, spake within himself, saying, This one, if he were the prophet, would have been taking note, who and of what sort, is the woman, who is even touching him, that she is, a sinner.

And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair.

you did not salute me, but this woman, since she came in, has been continually kissing my feet.

{For this reason} I tell you, her sins--[which were] many--have been forgiven, for she loved much. But [the one] to whom little is forgiven loves little."

And he said to her, 'Thy sins have been forgiven;'

and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary that was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

And he said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest [they are] in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

And it was reported to Him, "Thy mother and Thy brothers have been standing without, wishing to see Thee."

when he was landed, there met him a man, who belong'd to the city Gadara, and had been for a long time possessed by demons. he did not wear any cloaths, nor dwell in any house, but among the tombs.

For he had commanded the unclean spirit to go out from the man. For very often it had seized him; and he had been bound, kept with chains and fetters; and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the deserts.

And they who had been feeding them, seeing what had happened, fled, and carried tidings into the city, and into the country-places.

and country, whence numbers went to see the fact: being come to Jesus, they found the man, who had been dispossess'd of the demons, sitting at Jesus's feet, cloathed, and in his right senses: at which they were much surpriz'd,

And those who had seen [it] reported to them how the man who had been demon-possessed had been healed.

And all the people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, because they had been seized with great fear. So he got into the boat [and] returned.

now the man, who had been dispossess'd, begg'd to take him with him. but Jesus dismissed him,

And as Jesus returned, the people welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him.

Just then a man named Jairus came up, who had long been leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet and persisted in begging Him to come to his house,

and among the rest a woman, who had been troubled with an hemorrhage twelve years, having consum'd her whole fortune upon physicians, who could none of them cure her; she getting behind him,

When the woman saw that she had not escaped His notice, she came forward trembling, and falling down before Him she told in the presence of all the people why she had touched Him and how she had been cured at once.

And her parents were amazed: but he charged them to tell no man what had been done.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by some that John has been raised from the dead,

And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them, and when they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

And it came to pass, as he had been praying in retirement, his disciples were with him, and he asked them, Who do the multitudes say that I am?

For what doth a man profit, who hath gained the whole world, but hath lost, or been made to forfeit, himself?

For whosoever shall have been ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come in his glory, and in that of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Who, having been seen in glory spake of his exit which he was about to complete in Jerusalem.

Now Peter and his companions had been overcome by sleep, but all at once they became wide awake and saw His splendor and the two men who were standing with Him.

And in there having been a voice, Jesus was found alone. And they were silent, and announced nothing to any one in those days, of what they had seen.

And answering, Jesus said, O unbelieving generation, one having been perverted, how long shall I be with you and endure you? Bring your son here.