There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Ahijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.

And Mary, rising, departed into the mountainous land, with haste, into a city of Judah.

And fear came upon all of those dwelling around; and all these words were spoken abroad in all the mountainous regions of Judea.

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city Nazareth, into Judea, into the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

And in the fifteenth year in the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituria and the Trachonitis country, and Lusanius tetrarch of Abilene, during the high-priesthood of Annas

Mattathios, Semei, Josech, Joda,

Simeon, Judah, Joseph, Jonan, Eliakim,

Aminadab, Aram, Esrom, Phares, Judah,

And He was in one of the cities, and was teaching; and there were many Pharisees and theologians, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

And having come down with them, He stood upon a level place, and a great multitude of His disciples, and a great crowd of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and Tyre and Sidon by the sea, who came to hear Him, and to be healed of their diseases;

And that word about Him went out in all Judea, and all the country round about.

Then let those in Judea fly to the mountains; and let those in the midst of it depart out; and let not those in the country come into it.

And they became stronger and stronger, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee unto this place.