that thou mayest know the certainty of the things wherein thou wast instructed.

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 they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.

according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot was to make perfume, having gone into the sanctuary of the Lord,

and Zacharias, having seen, was troubled, and fear fell on him;

and the messenger said unto him, 'Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John,

And the messenger answering said to him, 'I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee,

and having come out, he was not able to speak to them, and they perceived that a vision he had seen in the sanctuary, and he was beckoning to them, and did remain dumb.

And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which is Nazareth,

and she, having seen, was troubled at his word, and was reasoning of what kind this salutation may be.

and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe did leap in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,

And my spirit was glad on God my Saviour,

And to Elisabeth was the time fulfilled for her bringing forth, and she bare a son,

and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

and his mouth was opened presently, and his tongue, and he was speaking, praising God.

and all who heard did lay them up in their hearts, saying, 'What then shall this child be?' and the hand of the Lord was with him.

And Zacharias his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and did prophesy, saying,

And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

this enrolment first came to pass when Cyrenius was governor of Syria --

and she brought forth her son -- the first-born, and wrapped him up, and laid him down in the manger, because there was not for them a place in the guest-chamber.

because there was born to you to-day a Saviour -- who is Christ the Lord -- in the city of David,

and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;

and the shepherds turned back, glorifying and praising God, for all those things they heard and saw, as it was spoken unto them.

And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, then was his name called Jesus, having been so called by the messenger before his being conceived in the womb.

And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name is Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him,

And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity,

and she, at that hour, having come in, was confessing, likewise, to the Lord, and was speaking concerning him, to all those looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

and the child grew and was strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.

And, therefore, indeed with many other things, exhorting, he was proclaiming good news to the people,

And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,

And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, son of Joseph,

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

and he was teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written:

and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,

and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but -- to Sarepta of Sidon, unto a woman, a widow;

and many lepers were in the time of Elisha the prophet, in Israel, and none of them was cleansed, but -- Naaman the Syrian.'

And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbaths,

and they were astonished at his teaching, because his word was with authority.

And in the synagogue was a man, having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a great voice,

and there was going forth a fame concerning him to every place of the region round about.

And having risen out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon, and the mother-in-law of Simon was pressed with a great fever, and they did ask him about her,

and having stood over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her, and presently, having risen, she was ministering to them.

and he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

And it came to pass, in the multitude pressing on him to hear the word of God, that he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,

and having entered into one of the boats, that was Simon's, he asked him to put back a little from the land, and having sat down, was teaching the multitudes out of the boat.

And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net was breaking,

but the more was the report going abroad concerning him, and great multitudes were coming together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities,

and he was withdrawing himself in the desert places and was praying.

And it came to pass, on one of the days, that he was teaching, and there were sitting by Pharisees and teachers of the Law, who were come out of every village of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was -- to heal them.

And presently having risen before them, having taken up that on which he was lying, he went away to his house, glorifying God,

And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat),

And it came to pass also, on another sabbath, that he goeth into the synagogue, and teacheth, and there was there a man, and his right hand was withered,

And having looked round on them all, he said to the man, 'Stretch forth thy hand;' and he did so, and his hand was restored whole as the other;

And it came to pass in those days, he went forth to the mountain to pray, and was passing the night in the prayer of God,

and all the multitude were seeking to touch him, because power from him was going forth, and he was healing all.

he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.

and a certain centurion's servant being ill, was about to die, who was much valued by him,

And Jesus was going on with them, and now when he is not far distant from the house the centurion sent unto him friends, saying to him, 'Sir, be not troubled, for I am not worthy that under my roof thou mayest enter;

And it came to pass, on the morrow, he was going on to a city called Nain, and there were going with him many of his disciples, and a great multitude,

and as he came nigh to the gate of the city, then, lo, one dead was being carried forth, an only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a great multitude of the city was with her.

And the Lord having seen her, was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, 'Be not weeping;'

and the wisdom was justified from all her children.'

And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat),

and lo, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having known that he reclineth (at meat) in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster box of ointment,

and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.

'Two debtors were to a certain creditor; the one was owing five hundred denaries, and the other fifty;

And it came to pass thereafter, that he was going through every city and village, preaching and proclaiming good news of the reign of God, and the twelve are with him,

'The sower went forth to sow his seed, and in his sowing some indeed fell beside the way, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the heaven did devour it.

And other fell upon the good ground, and having sprung up, it made fruit an hundred fold.' These things saying, he was calling, 'He having ears to hear -- let him hear.'

and it was told him, saying, 'Thy mother and thy brethren do stand without, wishing to see thee;'

and he having gone forth upon the land, there met him a certain man, out of the city, who had demons for a long time, and with a garment was not clothed, and in a house was not abiding, but in the tombs,

For he commanded the unclean spirit to come forth from the man, for many times it had caught him, and he was being bound with chains and fetters -- guarded, and breaking asunder the bonds he was driven by the demons to the deserts.

and he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to the abyss,

and there was there a herd of many swine feeding in the mountain, and they were calling on him, that he might suffer them to enter into these, and he suffered them,

And those feeding them, having seen what was come to pass, fled, and having gone, told it to the city, and to the fields;

and they came forth to see what was come to pass, and they came unto Jesus, and found the man sitting, out of whom the demons had gone forth, clothed, and right-minded, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid;

and those also having seen it, told them how the demoniac was saved.

And the man from whom the demons had gone forth was beseeching of him to be with him, and Jesus sent him away, saying,

and lo, there came a man, whose name is Jairus, and he was a chief of the synagogue, and having fallen at the feet of Jesus, was calling on him to come to his house;

because he had an only daughter about twelve years old, and she was dying. And in his going away, the multitudes were thronging him,

and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,

And the woman, having seen that she was not hid, trembling, came, and having fallen before him, for what cause she touched him declared to him before all the people, and how she was healed presently;

and her parents were amazed, but he charged them to say to no one what was come to pass.

And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by him, and was perplexed, because it was said by certain, that John hath been raised out of the dead;

and by certain, that Elijah did appear, and by others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;

and Herod said, 'John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?' and he was seeking to see him.

and the multitudes having known did follow him, and having received them, he was speaking to them concerning the reign of God, and those having need of service he cured.

and having taken the five loaves, and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and was giving to the disciples to set before the multitude;

and they did eat, and were all filled, and there was taken up what was over to them of broken pieces, twelve baskets.

And they answering said, 'John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;'

who having appeared in glory, spake of his outgoing that he was about to fulfil in Jerusalem,

and as he was speaking these things, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them, and they feared in their entering into the cloud,

and when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone; and they were silent, and declared to no one in those days anything of what they have seen.

And they were not knowing this saying, and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

and they did not receive him, because his face was going on to Jerusalem.

And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come,