Forasmuch as many have undertaken to draw up a relation concerning the matters fully believed among us,

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

And Mary, rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah,

And all who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, What then will this child be? And the Lord's hand was with him.

and raised up a horn of deliverance for us in the house of David his servant;

and Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city Nazareth to Judaea, to David's city, the which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Lo, this child is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;

and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;

and she coming up the same hour gave praise to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who waited for redemption in Jerusalem.

And when he was twelve years old, and they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast

Every gorge shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked places shall become a straight path, and the rough places smooth ways,

Produce therefore fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not to say in yourselves, We have Abraham for our father, for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

added this also to all the rest, that he shut up John in prison.

And the devil, leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.

And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power, and their glory; for it is given up to me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.

And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he entered, according to his custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.

And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.

But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,

and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, so that they might throw him down the precipice;

And rising up out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon. But Simon's mother-in-law was suffering under a bad fever; and they asked him for her.

And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and forthwith standing up she served them.

And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place, and the crowds sought after him, and came up to him, and would have kept him back that he should not go from them.

And not finding what way to bring him in, on account of the crowd, going up on the housetop they let him down through the tiles, with his little couch, into the midst before Jesus.

which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?

But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he said to the paralysed man, I say to thee, Arise, and take up thy little couch and go to thine house.

And immediately standing up before them, having taken up that whereon he was laid, he departed to his house, glorifying God.

And having left all, rising up, he followed him.

But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Get up, and stand in the midst. And having risen up he stood there.

And he, lifting up his eyes upon his disciples, said, Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

Blessed ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

Woe to you that are filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.

And the Lord, seeing her, was moved with compassion for her, and said to her, Weep not;

and coming up he touched the bier, and the bearers stopped. And he said, Youth, I say to thee, Wake up.

And the 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.

The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the way, and it was trodden under foot, and the birds of the heaven devoured it up;

and other fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it was dried up because it had not moisture;

and other fell in the midst of the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with it choked it;

and other fell into the good ground, and having sprung up bore fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

and coming to him they woke him up, saying, Master, master, we perish. But he, rising up, rebuked the wind and the raging of the water; and they ceased, and there was a calm.

And he said to them, Where is your faith? And, being afraid, they were astonished, saying to one another, Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?

coming up behind, touched the hem of his garment, and immediately her flux of blood stopped.

And all were weeping and lamenting her. But he said, Do not weep, for she has not died, but sleeps.

And her spirit returned, and immediately she rose up; and he commanded something to eat to be given to her.

And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven he blessed them, and broke and gave to the disciples to set before the crowd.

And they all ate and were filled; and there was taken up of what had remained over and above to them in fragments twelve hand-baskets.

saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

And he said to them all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;

And it came to pass after these words, about eight days, that taking Peter and John and James he went up into a mountain to pray.

But Peter and those with him were oppressed with sleep: but having fully awoke up they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.

And it came to pass when the days of his receiving up were fulfilled, that he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.

And thou, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades.

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit life eternal?

and came up to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and having put him on his own beast, took him to the inn and took care of him.

Now Martha was distracted with much serving, and coming up she said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Speak to her therefore that she may help me.

and he within answering should say, Do not disturb me; the door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up to give it thee?

I say to you, Although he will not get up and give them to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.

And it came to pass as he spake these things, a certain woman, lifting up her voice out of the crowd, said to him, Blessed is the womb that has borne thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, more than Solomon is here.

Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and behold, more than Jonas is here.

but there is nothing covered up which shall not be revealed, nor secret that shall not be known;

And he reasoned within himself saying, What shall I do? for I have not a place where I shall lay up my fruits.

And he said, This will I do: I will take away my granaries and build greater, and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things;

Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord on coming shall find watching; verily I say unto you, that he will gird himself and make them recline at table, and coming up will serve them.

And lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to lift her head up.

From the time that the master of the house shall have risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence ye are:

The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him, Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.

And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the sabbath day?

But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;

And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind.

I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;

And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.

And his elder son was in the field; and as, coming up, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.

And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

But the Lord said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye had said to this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

And it came to pass as he was going up to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

And they lifted up their voice saying, Jesus, Master, have compassion on us.

And he said to him, Rise up and go thy way: thy faith has made thee well.

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer.

And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.

And he took the twelve to him and said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written of the Son of man by the prophets shall be accomplished;

for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon.

And running on before, he got up into a sycamore that he might see him, for he was going to pass that way.

And when he came up to the place, Jesus looked up and saw him, and said to him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for to-day I must remain in thy house.

And the first came up, saying, My Lord, thy mina has produced ten minas.

And another came, saying, My Lord, lo, there is thy mina, which I have kept laid up in a towel.

For I feared thee because thou art a harsh man: thou takest up what thou hast not laid down, and thou reapest what thou hast not sowed.

He says to him, Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked bondman: thou knewest that I am a harsh man, taking up what I have not laid down and reaping what I have not sowed.

And having said these things, he went on before, going up to Jerusalem.

saying, Go into the village over against you, in which ye will find, on entering it, a colt tied up, on which no child of man ever sat at any time: loose it and lead it here.

And it came to pass on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and announcing the glad tidings, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up,

And having watched him, they sent out suborned persons, pretending to be just men, that they might take hold of him in his language, so that they might deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

And some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, coming up to him,

demanded of him saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother, who has a wife, die, and he die childless, his brother shall take the wife and raise up seed to his brother.

And he looked up and saw the rich casting their gifts into the treasury;

Then he said to them, Nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

But before all these things they shall lay their hands upon you and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors on account of my name;

But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death some from among you,