Since many people have attempted to write an orderly account of the events that have transpired among us,

I, too, have carefully investigated everything from the beginning and have decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the incense altar.

He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, "His name is John." And everyone was amazed.

Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read,

he began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled, as you've heard it read aloud."

But he walked right through the middle of them and went away.

When they couldn't find a way to get him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on his stretcher through the tiles into the middle of the room, right in front of Jesus.

Then they told him, "John's disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do those of the Pharisees. But your disciples keep right on eating and drinking."

Jesus answered them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions became hungry?

Once, on another Sabbath, Jesus went into a synagogue and began teaching. A man whose right hand was paralyzed was there.

When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to ask the crowds about John. "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

So the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at Jesus' feet, dressed and in his right mind, they were frightened.

While they were walking along the road, a man told him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

Jesus answered him, "What is written in the Law? What do you read there?"

By chance, a priest was traveling along that road. When he saw the man, he went by on the other side.

The Lord said, "Who, then, is the faithful and careful servant manager whom his master will put in charge of giving all his other servants their share of food at the right time?

"Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

The man replied, "A hundred jars of olive oil.' The manager told him, "Get your bill. Sit down quickly and write "50."'

Then he asked another debtor, "How much do you owe?' The man replied, "A hundred containers of wheat.' The manager told him, "Get your bill and write "80."'

People were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage right up to the day when Noah went into the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed all of them.

As Jesus was approaching Jericho, there was a blind man sitting by the road begging.

As he was riding along, people kept spreading their coats on the road.

At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order to get his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

When the scribes and the high priests realized that Jesus had told this parable about them, they wanted to arrest him right then, but they were afraid of the crowd.

so they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you're right in what you say and teach, and that you don't favor any individual, but teach the way of God truthfully.

and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

Because David himself in the book of Psalms says, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

When you hear of wars and revolutions, never be alarmed, because these sort of things must take place first, but the end won't come right away."

Then one of them struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear.

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God."

When they reached the place called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

Then they asked each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?"

They got up right away, went back to Jerusalem, and found the eleven disciples and their companions all together.

Then the two men began to tell what had happened on the road and how they had recognized him when he broke the bread in pieces.