But they had no child, Elizabeth being barren; and both of them were advanced in years.

When he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision there. But Zechariah kept making signs to them, and remained dumb.

Now, when the angels had left them and gone back to Heaven, the shepherds said to one another: "Let us go at once to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has happened, of which the Lord has told us."

And, when they saw it, they told of all that had been said to them about this child.

And the shepherds went back, giving glory and praise to God for all that they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not die until he had seen the Lord's Christ.

And then a widow, till she had reached the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple Courts, but, fasting and praying, worshiped God night and day.

When the child's parents had done everything enjoined by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth.

And had finished their visit; but, when they started to return, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, without their knowing it.

But Prince Herod, being rebuked by John respecting Herodias, the wife of Herod's brother, and for all the evil things that he had done,

Now after the baptism of all the people, and when Jesus had been baptized and was still praying, the heavens opened,

When he had tried every kind of temptation, the Devil left Jesus, till another opportunity.

Coming to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, Jesus, as was his custom, went on the Sabbath into the Synagogue, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

At sunset, all who had friends suffering from various diseases took them to Jesus; and he placed his hands upon every one of them and cured them.

The fishermen had gone away from them and were washing the nets.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon: "Push off into deep water, and throw out your nets for a haul."

For he and all who were with him were lost in amazement at the haul of fish which they had made;

And, when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything, and followed him.

On one of those days, when Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and Doctors of the Law were sitting near by. (They had come from all the villages in Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was upon Jesus, so that he could work cures.)

Instantly the man stood up before their eyes, took up what he had been lying on, and went to his home, praising God.

Then, looking round at them all, he said to the man: "Stretch out your hand." The man did so; and his hand had become sound.

Who had come to hear him and to be restored to health. Those, too, who were troubled with foul spirits were cured;

But 'alas for you who are rich,' for you have had your comforts in full.

He may be compared to a man building a house, who dug, and went deep, and laid the foundation upon the rock. Then, when a flood came, the river swept down upon that house, but had no power to shake it, because it had been built well.

When Jesus had brought to a conclusion all that he had then had to say to the people, he entered Capernaum.

A Captain in the Roman army had a slave whom he valued, and who was seriously ill--almost at the point of death.

At that very time Jesus had cured many people of diseases, afflictions, and wicked spirits, and had given many blind people their sight.

When John's messengers had left, Jesus, speaking to the crowds, began to say with reference to John:

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."

As well as some women who had been cured of wicked spirits and of infirmities. They were Mary, known as Mary of Magdala (from whom seven demons had been expelled),

And, on getting ashore, Jesus met a man, who had demons in him, coming out of the town. For a long time this man had worn no clothing, and he had not lived in a house, but in the tombs.

For Jesus was commanding the foul spirit to come out from the man. On many occasions it had seized him, and, even when secured with chains and fetters, and watched, he would break through anything that bound him, and be driven by the demon into the Wilds.

"What is your name?" Jesus asked. "Legion," he answered (for many demons had taken possession of him);

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country round.

The people went out to see what had happened, and, when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at Jesus' feet; and they were awe-struck.

Those who had seen it told them how the possessed man had been delivered;

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged Jesus to let him be with him; but Jesus sent him away.

"Go back to your home," he said, "and relate the story of all that God has done for you." So the man went through the whole town and proclaimed, as he went, all that Jesus had done for him.

And a woman, who had suffered from hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom no one could cure,

"Somebody touched me," said Jesus; "for I felt that power had gone out from me."

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.

Before he had finished speaking, some one came from the house of the President of the Synagogue and said: "Your daughter is dead! Do not trouble the Teacher further."

Her parents were amazed, but Jesus impressed on them that they were not to tell any one what had happened.

Some again said that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the old Prophets had risen again.

When the Apostles returned, they related to Jesus all that they had done. Then Jesus retired privately to a town called Bethsaida, taking the Apostles with him.

Every one had sufficient to eat, and what was left of the broken pieces was picked up--twelve baskets.

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, as the voice ceased, Jesus was found alone. The Apostles kept silence, and told no one about any of the things that they had seen.

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met Jesus.

But the disciples did not understand the meaning of this; it had been concealed from them so that they did not see it, and they were afraid to question him as to what he meant.

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For, if the Miracles which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have sat in sackcloth and ashes and repented long ago.

And Jesus replied: "I have had visions of Satan, fallen, like lightning from the heavens.

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to his teaching;

One day Jesus was at a certain place praying, and, when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him: "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

Once Jesus was driving out a dumb demon, and, when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke. The people were amazed at this;

But, when one still stronger has attacked and overpowered him, he takes away all the weapons on which the other had relied, and divides his spoil.

Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod upon one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them: "Be on your guard against the leaven--that is, the hypocrisy--of the Pharisees.

This you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

Just at that time some people had come to tell Jesus about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.

And Jesus told them this parable-- "A man, who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, came to look for fruit on it, but could not find any.

And he saw before him a woman who for eighteen years had suffered from weakness owing to her having an evil spirit in her. She was bent double, and was wholly unable to raise herself.

But the President of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had worked the cure on the Sabbath, interposed and said to the people: "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come to be cured on one of those, and not on the Sabbath."

It is like some yeast which a woman took and covered in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen."

Then Jesus went on to say to the man who had invited him: "When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not ask your friends, or your brothers, or your relations, or rich neighbors, for fear that they should invite you in return, and so you should be repaid.

And sent his servant, when it was time for the dinner, to say to those who had been invited 'Come, for everything is now ready.'

Then Jesus continued: "A man had two sons;

A few days later the younger son got together all that he had, and went away into a distant land; and there he squandered his inheritance by leading a dissolute life.

After he has spent all that he had, there was a severe famine through all that country, and he began to be in actual want.

Jesus said to his disciples: "There was a rich man who had a steward; and this steward was maliciously accused to him of wasting his estate.

Near his gateway there had been laid a beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores,

It would be good for him if he had been flung into the sea with a mill-stone round his neck, rather than that he should prove a snare to even one of these lowly ones.

Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'

And threw himself on his face at Jesus' feet, thanking him for what he had done; and this man was a Samaritan.

"There was," he said, "in a certain town a judge, who had no fear of God nor regard for man.

Some of the people were bringing even their babies to Jesus, for him to touch them; but, when the disciples saw it, they began to find fault with those who had brought them.

Then Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. And, when he had come close up to him, Jesus asked him:

On his return, after having been appointed King, he directed that the servants to whom he had given his money should be summoned, so that he might learn what amount of trade they had done.

It was when Jesus had almost reached Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, that he sent on two of the disciples.

So the two who were sent went and found it as Jesus had told them.

When he had almost reached the place where the road led down the Mount of Olives, every one of the many disciples began in their joy to praise God loudly for all the miracles that they had seen:

"Would that you had known, while yet there was time--even you--the things that make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your sight.

After this the Teachers of the Law and the Chief Priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.

About the woman, then--at the resurrection, whose wife is she to be, all seven brothers having had her as their wife?"

For every one else here put in something from what he had to spare, while she, in her need, has put in all she had to live upon."

When the day of the Festival of the Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lambs had to be killed,

So Peter and John went on, and found everything just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

For I tell you that I shall not eat it again, until it has had its fulfillment in the Kingdom of God."

Then, turning to the Chief Priests and Officers in charge at the Temple and Councillors, who had come for him, he said: "Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs?

Those who had taken Jesus prisoner took him away into the house of the High Priest. Peter followed at a distance.

But, when they had lit a fire in the center of the court-yard and had all sat down there, Peter seated himself in the middle of them.

And the Master turned and looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the words that the Master had said to him-- "Before a cock has crowed to-day, you will disown me three times";

When Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly pleased, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, having heard a great deal about him; and he was hoping to see some sign given by him.

And Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, for before that there had been ill-will between them.

(Barabbas was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had broken out in the city and for murder.)

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, as they demanded, and gave Jesus up to be dealt with as they pleased.

When they had reached the place called 'The Skull,' there they crucified Jesus and the criminals, one on the right, and one on the left.

The Roman Captain, on seeing what had happened, praised God, exclaiming: "This must have been a good man!"

All the people who had collected to see the sight watched what occurred, and then went home beating their breasts.

All the friends of Jesus had been standing at a distance, with the women who accompanied him from Galilee, watching all this.

(This man had not assented to the decision and action of the Council.) He belonged to Ramah, a town in Judea, and lived in expectation of the Kingdom of God.