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 you might know the certainty of the things in which you have been instructed.

But the angel said to him: " Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son, whom you shall call by the 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," she said, "now that he has deigned to take away the reproach under which I have been living."

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 blessed is'she that believed; for there shall be a fulfilment 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 spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from of old),

To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,

to be registered with Mary who had been betrothed to him, who was with child.

for to you hath been born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, who is the 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 the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, having been so called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

(as it has been written in the law of the Lord??Every male opening the 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 unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen 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.

And he said to them, Why is it that ye have been seeking me? Did ye not know that I must be about my Fathers business?

as it has been written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight 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, Exact no more than hath been ordered you.

But Herod the tetrarch having been reproved by him on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, and for all the wicked deeds which Herod did,

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 has been written, 'He will command His angels concerning you, to keep watch over you;

And Jesus answering said to him, It hath been said, "Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy 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 to Him a book of the prophet Isaiah; and, opening the book, He found the place where it had 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 unto them, To-day hath this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

And he said to them, Ye will doubtless say to me this proverb, "Physician, heal thyself;" whatever things we have heard of as having been done in Capernaum, do here too in thy own country.

and, rising up, they cast Him forth out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, 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 make known the good news of the kingdom of God to other cities also; for to this end I have been sent.

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 seeing their faith, he said, 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 he immediately arose before them, took up that on which he had been lying, and went away to his own house, glorifying God.

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

And no one that has been drinking old wine, immediately desireth new; for he saith, the old is better.

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 that were sent, returned to the house, they found the servant well, that had been sick.

And he that had been dead, sat up and began to speak; and he gave him 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.)

though wisdom hath been justified by 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.

When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself: "Had this man been 'The Prophet,' he would have known who, and what sort of woman, this is who is touching him, and that she is an outcast."

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 some women that had been cured of evil spirits and other infirmities, as Mary Magdalene, out of whom were cast seven demons,

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."

And when He was landed, there met Him a man out of the city, who had been possessed by demons a long while, and wore no clothes, and abode in no dwelling but the tombs.

For he had O; commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had often seized upon him, and he had been bound with chains and fetters, and kept in confinement; and he broke the bonds, and 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 they came out to see what had been done; and they came to Jesus, and saw the man out of whom the demons had gone, clothed, and in his right mind, sitting at the feet of Jesus; and they were afraid.

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.

Now a man named Jairus, a synagogue official, came [to Him]; and he fell at Jesus’ feet and began begging Him to come to his house;

and a woman who had been in a flux twelve years, and had spent her whole livelyhood upon physicians,

Then the woman, when she saw that she was discovered, came forward trembling, and threw herself down before him; and, in the presence of all the people, she told him her reason for touching him, and that she had been cured instantly.

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.

Peter and his companions had been overpowered by sleep but, suddenly becoming wide awake, they saw Jesus glorified and the two men who were standing beside 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.