it seemed good to me also, following all things accurately from the very first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,

And Zacharias said to the angel, By what shall I know this? For I am old, and my wife is advanced in her days.

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

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

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

And from where is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

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

And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord,

and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

For He looked on the humiliation of His slave woman. For, behold, from now on all generations shall count me blessed.

For the Mighty One has done great things for me; and holy is His name.

For my eyes have seen Your Salvation

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

And He said to them, Why did you look for Me? Do you not know that I must be about My Father's business?

And the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily shape, like a dove on Him. And a voice came from Heaven, which said, You are My Son, the Beloved; I am delighted in You.

And the Devil said to Him, All this power I will give you, and the glory of them; for it has been delivered to me. And I give it to whomever I will.

Therefore if you will worship me, all shall be yours.

And Jesus answered and said to him, Get 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 on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,

And He said to them, You will surely say this proverb to Me, Physician, heal yourself. Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in your native-place.

And seeing, Simon Peter fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.

And it happened, as He was in a certain city, behold, a man full of leprosy! And seeing Jesus, he fell on his face and begged Him, saying, Lord, if You will, You can cleanse me.

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins, He said to the paralytic, I say to you, Arise, and take up your cot and go to your house.

And after these things He went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi, sitting at the tax-office. And He said to him, Follow Me.

Or how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the splinter in your eye, when you yourself do not see the beam that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First cast out the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to pull out the splinter that is in your brother's eye.

And why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?

Whoever comes to Me and hears My Words, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like.

Then Jesus went with them. But He being yet not far off from the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying to Him, Lord, do not trouble Yourself. For I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof.

Therefore neither did I think myself worthy to come to You; but say a word, and my servant will be healed.

For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers. And I say to 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 who 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 He turned to the woman and said to Simon, Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, yet you gave Me no water for My feet. But she has washed My feet with tears, and has wiped them with the hair of her head.

You gave Me no kiss, but this woman, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss My feet.

You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with ointment.

And no one lighting a lamp covers it with a vessel or puts it under a couch; but he sets it on a lampstand so that those who enter in may see the light.

And He answered and said to them, My mother and My brothers are those who hear the Word of God and do it.

And seeing Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him and said with a loud voice, What is to me and to You, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I beseech You, Do not torment me!

And Jesus said, Who touched Me? And all having denied, Peter and those with Him said, Master, the crowd presses and jostles You, and You say, Who touched Me?

And Jesus said, Someone has touched Me, for I know that power has gone out of Me.

But the day began to wear away, and coming up the Twelve said to Him, Send the crowd away so that they may go into the villages and farms all around, and lodge, and get food. For we are here in a deserted place.

And He said to all, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

For whoever will save his life shall lose it, but whoever will lose his life for My sake, he shall save it.

For whoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words, the Son of Man shall be ashamed of him when He shall come in His own and in His Father's glory, and that of the holy angels.

And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, hear Him.

And behold, a man cried aloud from the crowd, saying, Teacher, I beseech You, look on my son, for he is my only-born son.

And He said to them, Whoever shall receive this child in My name receives Me. And whoever shall receive Me receives Him who sent Me. For he who is least among you all, he shall be great.

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

And another also said, Lord, I will follow You, but first allow me to take leave of those in my house.

Then He said to them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest that He may send forth laborers into His harvest.

The one hearing you hears Me, and he who despises you despises Me; he who rejects you also rejects Him who sent Me.

All things are delivered to Me by My Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son will reveal Him.

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

But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she came to Him and said, Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.

And He said to them, which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,

And he answering from inside may say, Do not trouble me. The door is now shut and my children are in bed with me. I cannot rise and give to you.

He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

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

No one, when he has lighted a lamp, puts it in a secret place, or under a grain-measure, but on a lampstand, so that they who come in may see the light.

so 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 to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

Also I say to you, Whoever shall confess Me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess him before the angels of God.

But he who denies Me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

And one of the company said to Him, Master, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

And He said to 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 in which to store my fruits?

And he said, I will do this. I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and I will store all my fruits and my goods there.

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 men who wait for their lord, whenever he shall return from the wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.

But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat the male servants and women servants, and to eat and drink and to be drunk,

But He shall say, I tell you, I do not know you; from where you are. Depart from Me, all workers of unrighteousness!

Behold, your house is left to you desolate. And truly I say to you, You will not see Me until it come when you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.

When you are invited by anyone to a wedding, do not recline in the chief seat, lest a more honorable man than you may be invited by him.

But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher. Then glory shall be to you before those reclining with you.

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

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I beg you, have me excused.

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

For I say to you that none of these men who were invited shall taste of my supper.

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me, he cannot be My disciple.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he may have enough to finish it;

So then, everyone of you who does not forsake all his possessions, he cannot be My disciple.

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to 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 drachma which I had lost.

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

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father abound in loaves, and I perish with hunger!

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

and am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me like 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 answering he said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave me a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.

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

And he called him and said to him, What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward.

And the steward said within himself, What shall I do? For my lord is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

I know what I will do, so 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 and said; to the first, How much do you owe my lord?

And I say to you, Make friends by the mammon of unrighteousness for yourselves, so that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

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

And he said, I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house,

for I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

Will he not say to him, Prepare something so that I may eat, and gird yourself and serve me until I eat and drink. And afterward you shall eat and drink.