In the reign of Herod, King of Judea, there was a certain priest, named Zachariah, belonging to the class of Abijah. He had a wife named Elizabeth,

Soon after this Mary set out and hastened unto the hill-country to a town in Judah;

And there came a great fear upon all in the neighborhood; and throughout the hill country of Judea all these sayings were much talked about.

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city if Nazareth, into Judea, to David's town of Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene;

son of Mahath, son of Matthias, son of Semein, son of Joseph, son of Joda,

son of Symeon, son of Judah, son of Joseph, son of Jonan, son of Eliakim,

son of Amminadab, son of Admin, son of Arni, son of Hezron, son of Perez, son of Judah,

One day he was teaching, and near to him were seated Pharisees and teachers of the Law, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

Jude the son of James, and Judas Iscariot who was the traitor.

With these he came down till he reached a level place, where there was a great crowd of his disciples and a great many people from all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. These came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases.

And the report of what Jesus had done went forth throughout Judea and the surrounding regions.

"Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let those who are in the country enter not in.

But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee."