In the days of Herod king of Judaea there was a priest called Zechariah, who belonged to the division of Abijah; he had a wife who belonged to the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;

he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God,

he will go in front of Him with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a people ready and prepared for the Lord."

he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and to his reign there will be no end."

Look, there is your kinswoman Elizabeth! Even she has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month;

He has done a deed of might with his arm, he has scattered the proud with their purposes,

Mary stayed with her about three months and then returned home.

Then fear fell on all their neighbours, and all these events were talked of through the whole of the hill-country of Judaea.

to bring his people the knowledge of salvation through the remission of their sins

and while they were there the days elapsed for her delivery;

she gave birth to her firstborn son, and as there was no room for them inside the khan she wrapped him up and laid him in a stall for cattle.

There were some shepherds in the district who were out in the fields keeping guard over their flocks by night;

When the days for their purification in terms of the Mosaic law had elapsed, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Symeon, an upright and devout man, who was on the outlook for the Consolation of Israel. The holy Spirit was upon him;

There was also a prophetess, Hannah the daughter of Phanuel, who belonged to the tribe of Asher; she was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her girlhood

When they had finished all the regulations of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazaret.

they supposed he was in the caravan and travelled on for a day, searching for him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances.

Three days later they found him in the temple, seated among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose.

Then he brought him to Jerusalem and placing him on the pinnacle of the temple said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from this;

and They will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."

He taught in their synagogues and was glorified by all.

I tell you for a fact, In Israel there were many widows during the days of Elijah, when the sky was closed for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land:

And in Israel there were many lepers in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of these was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian."

they rose up, put him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, in order to hurl him down.

But he made his way through them and went off.

Now in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean daemon, who shrieked aloud,

So he went preaching through the synagogues of Judaea.

two boats on the shore of the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets.

And when they did so, they enclosed a huge shoal of fish, so that their nets began to break.

Then they made signals to their mates in the other boat to come and assist them. They came and filled both the boats, till they began to sink.

When he was in one of their towns, there was a man full of leprosy who, on seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me."

But the news of him spread abroad more and more; large crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their complaints,

but when they could not find any means of getting him in, on account of the crowd, they climbed to the top of the house and let him down through the tiles, mattress and all among the people in front of Jesus.

When he saw their faith he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."

Levi held a great banquet for him in his house; there was a large company present of taxgatherers and others who were guests along with them.

But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

One sabbath it happened that as he was crossing the cornfields his disciples pulled some ears of corn and ate them, rubbing them in their hands.

Another sabbath he happened to go into the synagogue and teach. Now a man was there who had his right hand withered,

He knew what was in their minds; so he told the man with the withered hand, "Rise and stand forward." He rose and stood before them.

With them he came down the hill and stood on a level spot. There was a great company of his disciples with him, and a large multitude of people from all Judaea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to get cured of their diseases.

rejoice on that day and leap for joy! rich is your reward in heaven for their fathers did the very same to the prophets.

Woe to you when all men speak well of you! that is just what their fathers did to the false prophets.

Now there was an army-captain who had a servant ill whom he valued very highly. This man was at the point of death;

Just as he was near the gate of the town, there was a dead man being carried out; he was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town were with her.

And this story of Jesus spread through the whole of Judaea and all the surrounding country.

I tell you, among the sons of women there is none greater than John, and yet the least in the Realm of God is greater than he is."

Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume

"There was a moneylender who had two debtors; one owed him fifty pounds, the other five.

Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.

so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

Those 'on the road' are people who hear; but then the devil comes and carries off the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

they went and woke him up. "Master, master," they cried, "we are drowning!" So he woke up and checked the wind and the surf; they ceased and there was a calm.

Now a considerable drove of swine was grazing there on the hillside, so the daemons begged him for leave to enter them. He gave them leave,

"Go home and describe all that God has done for you." So he went off to proclaim through the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.

Whatever house you go into, stay there and leave from there.

Now as the day began to decline the twelve came up to him and said, "Send the crowd off to lodge in the villages and farms around and get provisions there, for here we are in a desert place."

(There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty."

I tell you plainly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Reign of God."

There were two men conversing with him, Moses and Elijah,

who appeared in a vision of glory and said he must go through with his death and departure at Jerusalem.

When they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" (not knowing what he was saying).

Jesus knew the dispute that occupied their minds, so he took hold of a little child and set it by his side;

Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."

Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you go and spread the news of the Reign of God."

Then, if there is a soul there breathing peace, your peace will rest on him; otherwise it will come back to you.

He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?"

Which of these three men, in your opinion, proved a neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?"

In the course of their journey he entered a certain village, and a woman called Martha welcomed him to her house.

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, let me have three loaves;

When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment. As it finds none, then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,'

Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first."

He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens.

pagans make food and drink their aim in life, but your Father knows quite well you need that;

For where your treasure lies, your heart will lie there too.

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

I have come to throw fire on earth. Would it were kindled already!

After this there will be five at issue in one house, three divided against two and two against three,

And to the crowds he said, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say, 'There is a shower coming,' and so it is:

when you feel the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be heat,' and so it is.

Thus, when you go before the magistrate with your opponent, do your utmost to get quit of him on the way there, in case he hales you before the judge; then the judge will hand you over to the jailer and the jailer will throw you in prison.

It was at this time that some people came to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

So he said to the vinedresser, 'Here have I come for three years in search of fruit on this fig tree without finding any; cut it down, why should it take up space?'

there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself.

But the president of the synagogue was annoyed at Jesus healing on the sabbath, and he said to the crowd, "There are six days for work to be done; come during them to get healed, instead of on the sabbath."

It is like dough which a woman took and buried in three pecks of flour, till all of it was leavened."

"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

There you will wail and gnash your teeth, to see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the prophets inside the Realm of God and yourselves put outside.

Yes, and people will come from east and west and north and south to their places at the feast within the Realm of God.

In front of him there was a man who had dropsy;

They held their peace. Then Jesus took hold of the man and cured him and sent him off.

Jesus said to him, "There was a man who was giving a large supper, to which he had invited a number of guests.

When the servant announced, 'Your order has been carried out, sir, but there is still room,'

There were large crowds travelling with him; so he turned and said to them,

So, I tell you, there will be joy in heaven over a single sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.

So, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over a single sinner who repents."

He also said: "There was a man who had two sons,

He also said to the disciples: "There was a rich man who had a factor, and this factor, he found, was accused of misapplying his property.

Ah, I know what I will do, so that people will welcome me to their houses when I am deposed from the factorship.'