NOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene:

Now Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him, on account of Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the other wicked actions which he had done,

And Jesus himself was about thirty years of age when he began his ministry, being (as was supposed the son of Joseph) of Heli,

being tempted forty days by the devil; and did eat nothing during those days: and when they were ended, afterwards he was hungry.

And he taught in their synagogues, being universally admired.

And the servant of a certain centurion, who was very valuable to him, being seized with an illness, was ready to die.

And all the people when they heard it, and the publicans, glorified God, being baptised with the baptism of John.

But the Pharisees and teachers of the law rejected the counsel of God towards themselves, not being baptised by him.

And a Levite also, in the same way, being near the place, came, and seeing him, kept the opposite side of the road.

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?

And that servant returning, informed his master of these things. Then the master of the family, being highly incensed, said to his servant, Go out instantly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

lest haply, after having laid the foundation, and being unable to finish it, all who look upon it begin to ridicule him,

and in hell, lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he seeth Abraham at a vast distance, and Lazarus in his bosom.

And being asked by one of the Pharisees, When cometh the kingdom of God? he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

neither can they die any more: for they are like the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

But before all these things, they will lay hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and to prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

And being in an agony, he prayed with greater intenseness: and his sweat was as clots of blood falling on the ground.

And lo! a man named Joseph, being a member of the council, a good man, and a just;

(who had not given his assent to their determination and deed;) being of Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who himself also expected the coming of the kingdom of God.