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.

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;

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;

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

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."

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

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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,

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,

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?"

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."

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

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.

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."

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.

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

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.

There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day.

Was there no one to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst."

To his disciples he said, "There will come days when you will long and long in vain to have even one day of the Son of man.

Men will say, 'See, here he is!' 'See, there he is!' but do not go out or run after them,

On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in the one bed, the one will be taken and the other left;

They asked him, "Where, Lord?" And he said to them, "Where the body is lying, there the vultures will gather."

"In a certain town," he said, "there was a judge who had no reverence for God and no respect even for man.

And in that town there was a widow who used to go and appeal to him for 'Justice against my opponent!'

there was a man called Zacchaeus, the head of the taxgatherers, a wealthy man,

Well, there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died childless.

"As for what you see, there are days coming when not a stone will be left upon another, without being torn down."

there will be great earthquakes with famine and pestilence here and there, there will be awful portents and great signs from heaven.

And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, while on earth the nations will be in dismay with bewilderment at the roar of sea and waves,

Then he will show you a large room upstairs with couches spread; make your preparations there."

For I tell you, this word of scripture must be fulfilled in me: he was classed among criminals. Yes, there is an end to all that refers to me."

While he was still speaking, there came a mob headed by the man called Judas, one of the twelve. He approached in order to kiss Jesus,

For there are days coming when the cry will be, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never have borne and the breasts that never have suckled!'

and when they came to the place called The Skull they crucified him there along with the criminals, one at his right and one at his left.

(For there was an inscription over him in Greek and Latin and Hebrew characters, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.)

Now there was a man called Joseph, a member of council but a good and just man

and one of them, called Cleopas, answered him, "Are you a lone stranger in Jerusalem, not to know what has been happening there?"