have handed them down to us, I too, most excellent Theophilus, because I have carefully investigated them all from the start, have felt impressed to write them out in order for you

And listen! your relative, Elizabeth, has herself too become pregnant, although she is old, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

And Joseph too went up from Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to the town of David in Judea called Bethlehem, because he was a descendant of the house and family of David,

Now when the period of their purification ended, in accordance with the law of Moses, they took Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord, to do as it is written in the law of the Lord,

Symeon also took Him in his arms and blessed God, and said:

Then some soldiers too were asking him, "What ought we too to do?" So he said to them, "Never extort money from anyone, never make a false accusation, and always be satisfied with your wages."

Then he took Him up and in a second of time he showed Him all the kingdoms of the world.

Then he took Him to Jerusalem, and had Him stand on the tip-top turret of the temple, and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down from here,

Then He rolled up the roll and gave it back to the attendant and took His seat. Now the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were gazing at Him.

and they rose up and drove Him out of town and took Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to hurl Him down the cliff.

Then He took His stand by her and reproved the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

Then He told them a short story: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and puts it on an old one; or if he does, he will tear the new one too, and the patch from the new coat will not match the old one.

How he went into the house of God and took and ate the sacred loaves, which it was against the law for anyone to eat except the priests, and gave some to his soldiers?"

Then He came down with them and took His stand on a level place, where there was a great throng of His disciples and a vast crowd of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases.

To the man who strikes you on one cheek, offer him the other too; and from the man who takes away your coat, do not keep back your shirt either,

For I too am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave to do this, and he does it."

Now one of the Pharisees invited Him to take dinner with him. So He came to the Pharisee's house and took His place at the table.

and took her stand behind Him at His feet, continually weeping. Then she began to wet His feet with her tears, but she continued to wipe them off with the hair of her head, and she kept right on kissing His feet with affection and anointing them with the perfume.

Now the apostles returned and told Jesus all that they had done. Then He took them and privately retired to a town called Bethsaida.

Then He took the five loaves and two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them, and He broke them in pieces and gave them to the disciples to pass on to the people.

Now about eight days after Jesus said this, He took Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

But Jesus, as He knew that the controversy was going on in their hearts, took a little child and had it stand by His side.

So he went to him and dressed his wounds by pouring oil and wine upon them, and then he put him on his donkey and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

The next day he took out a half dollar and handed it to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him, and on my way back I will repay you.'

He said, "The one who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Go and practice it yourself."

She had a sister named Mary who took her seat at the Lord's feet, and remained listening to His message.

When He had said this, a Pharisee asked Him to lunch at his house, and He went in and took His place at table.

You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside too?

Then an expert in the law interrupted Him and said, "Teacher, in saying this you are insulting us, too."

He said, "Yes, a curse on you experts in the law, too, because you load people down with loads too heavy to carry, and yet you do not touch the loads yourselves with one of your fingers!

For wherever your treasure is, there too your heart will be.

So you, too, must always be ready, for at an hour that you are not expecting, the Son of Man will come."

It is like a mustard seed which a man took and dropped in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted in its branches."

It is like yeast which a woman took and hid in a bushel of flour until it all had risen."

But they made no answer. So He took hold of the man and cured him and sent him away.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

One day the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to be Abraham's bosom companion, and the rich man too died and was buried.

(for I have five brothers) to warn them, that they too may not come to this place of torture.'

So you too, when you do all that you are ordered to do, say, 'We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done.'"

The man who is on the roof of his house that day, and his goods in the house, must not come down to carry them out; and the man in the field, too, must not turn back.

Now He took the Twelve aside and said to them, "Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

Here there was a man named Zaccheus, who was tax-commissioner of the district, and he was a rich man too.

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this home, for he too is a real descendant of Abraham.

So he said to him too, 'Be governor of five cities?

One day while He was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the good news, the high priests and the scribes, together with the elders, took a stand against Him,

Then He answered them, "I will ask you a question too. Tell me,

Now when the hour came, He took His place at the table, with the apostles about Him.

Then He took a loaf, gave thanks, and broke it in pieces, and gave it to them, and said, "This is my body which is to be given for you. Do this as a memorial to me."

In like manner after supper He took a cup of wine, and said, "This cup of wine is the new covenant to be ratified by my blood, which is to be poured out for you.

Then He said to them, "But now the man who has a purse must take it, and a bag too. And the man who does not have a sword must sell his coat and buy one.

Then He went out of the city and up the Mount of Olives, as He was in the habit of doing; and His disciples, too, followed Him there.

And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had taken their seats together, Peter, too, was sitting among them.

A servant girl saw him sitting by the fire and fixed her eyes on him and said, "This fellow was with Him too."

A little later a man looked at him and said, "You are one of them too." But Peter said, "Man, I am not."

Now one of the criminals who were hanging from their crosses kept abusing Him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Then save yourself and us too!"

And all the crowds who had come together for this sight, when they had seen what took place, returned to the city but continued to beat their breasts in grief.

Then he took it down from the cross and wrapped it in a linen sheet and laid it in a tomb hewn out of rock, where no one had yet been laid.

And as they were being perplexed about this, two men in dazzling robes suddenly took their stand beside them.

And after He had taken His place at table with them, He took the loaf and blessed it and broke it in pieces and handed it to them.

Even while they were talking about these things, He took His stand among them Himself, [and said to them, "Peace to you!"]

and He took it and ate it before their eyes.