It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto you in order, most excellent Theophilus,

And Zachariah said unto the angel, How shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well advanced in years.

And, behold, you shall be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because you believe not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time.

Thus has the Lord dealt with me in the days in which he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.

And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

For, lo, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

And Mary said, My soul does magnify the Lord,

And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

For he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

For he that is mighty has done to me great things; and holy is his name.

For my eyes have seen your salvation,

(Yea, a sword shall pierce through your own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

And he said unto them, How is it that you sought me? knew you not that I must be about my Father's business?

And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, You are my beloved Son; in you I am well pleased.

And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give you, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

If you therefore will worship me, all shall be yours.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get you behind me, Satan: for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

And he said unto them, You will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal yourself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in your country.

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.

But that you may know that the Son of man has power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the paralytic,) I say unto you, Arise, and take up your bed, and go into your house.

And after these things he went forth, and saw a tax collector, named Levi, sitting at the tax office: and he said unto him, Follow me.

Either how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself behold not the beam that is in your own eye? you hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of your own eye, and then shall you see clearly to pull out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

And why call me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Whosoever comes to me, and hears my sayings, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like:

Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not yourself: for I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof:

Therefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto you: but say a word, and my servant shall be healed.

For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.

And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?

And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, See this woman? I entered into your house, you gave me no water for my feet: but she has washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

You gave me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in has not ceased to kiss my feet.

My head with oil you did not anoint: but this woman has anointed my feet with ointment.

No man, when he has lighted a lamp, covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed; but sets it on a lampstand, that they who enter in may see the light.

And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of God most high? I beseech you, torment me not.

And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Teacher, the multitude throng you and press you, and you say, Who touched me?

And Jesus said, Somebody has touched me: for I perceive that power has gone out of me.

And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get food: for we are here in a desert place.

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

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.

And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Teacher, I beseech you, look upon my son: for he is my only child.

And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receives me: and whosoever shall receive me receives him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.

And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.

And another also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, who are at home at my house.

He that hears you hears me; and he that despises you despises me; and he that despises me despises him that sent me.

All things are delivered to me by my Father: and no man knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

But Martha was cumbered about with much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;

For a friend of mine in his journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?

And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give you.

He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathers not with me scatters.

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, I will return unto my house from which I came out.

No man, when he has lighted a lamp, puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a lampstand, that they who come in may see the light.

That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:

But he that denies me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

And one of the crowd said unto him, Teacher, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room to store my crops?

And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I store all my crops and my goods.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

And you yourselves be like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open unto him immediately.

But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunk;

When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are in the way, give diligence that you may settle with him; lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.

But he shall say, I tell you, I know not where you come from; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, you shall not see me, until the time comes when you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

But when you are bidden, go and sit down in the lowest place; that when he that bade you come, he may say unto you, Friend, go up higher: then shall you have honor in the presence of them that sit at table with you.

And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it: I pray you have me excused.

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them: I pray you have me excused.

And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

For I say unto you, That none of those men who were bidden shall taste of my supper.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And whosoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided unto them his living.

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you,

And am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years have I served you, neither transgressed I at any time your commandment: and yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

And he said unto him, Son, you are ever with me, and all that I have is yours.

And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of you? give an account of your stewardship; for you may be no longer steward.

Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

I have decided what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owe you unto my lord?

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it fails, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house:

For I have five brothers; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

And will not rather say unto him, Make ready that I may eat, and gird yourself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward you shall eat and drink?