There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth;

And it came to pass, in his acting as priest, in the order of his course before God,

And he charged him to tell no one, 'But, having gone away, shew thyself to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing according as Moses directed, for a testimony to them;'

'And no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed;

'And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side;

And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!

And a certain one of them smote the servant of the chief priest, and took off his right ear,

And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off,