In the days when Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest whose name was Zechariah, who belonged to the division of Abijah. His wife was also a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

One day, when Zechariah was officiating as priest before God, during the turn of his Division,

according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense, when he went into the temple of the Lord.

And the entire congregation of people was praying outside at the time when the incense was burned.

when there appear'd to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the incense-altar.

And Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear came on him.

And you will have joy and happiness and many people will rejoice when he is born.

Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time.

And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and began to wonder [when] he was delayed in the temple.

And when he came out he was not able to say anything, and they saw that he had seen a vision in the Temple; and he was making signs to them without words.

And when the days of his work in the Temple were ended, he went back to his house.

"This wise hath God dealt with me, in the days when he looked on me, to take from me the rebuke that I suffered among men."

And when the angel came in to the room to her, he said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured; the Lord is with thee;

blessed art thou among women! and when she saw him, she was confused at what he said, and pondered in her mind what sort of salutation this could be.

When the angel spoke again: "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, when I have no husband?"

And when the voice of Mary came to the ears of Elisabeth, the baby made a sudden move inside her; then Elisabeth was full of the Holy Spirit,

For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.

Now when Elisabeth's time for her delivery was fully come, she brought forth a son:

When her neighbours and kinsfolk heard of the Lord's great mercy to her they rejoiced with her,

It happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child [as required by the Law], and they intended to name him Zacharias, after his father;

When his mother interposed: "No, he is to be called John."

And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria.

When an angel of the Lord suddenly stood by them, and the Glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were seized with fear.

And when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the keepers of the sheep said to one another, Let us go now to Beth-lehem, and see this thing which has come about, which the Lord has made clear to us.

And when they saw it, they gave them an account of the things which had been said to them about the child.

And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.

And when the necessary days for making them clean by the law of Moses had come to an end, they took him to Jerusalem to give him to the Lord

And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law,

And when they had done all the things which were ordered by the law of the Lord, they went back to Galilee, to Nazareth, the town where they were living.

And when he was twelve years old, they went up, as their way was, to the feast;

And when the days of the feast came to an end and they were going back, the boy Jesus was still in Jerusalem, but they had no knowledge of it:

and when they found him not, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking for him.

And when they saw him they were surprised, and his mother said to him, Son, why have you done this to us? see, your father and I have been looking for you with sorrow.

But they did not understand what He meant when He said that to them.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Trachonitis,

When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.

And when some soldiers on active service asked "And we--what are we to do?" he said: "Never use violence, or exact anything by false accusation; and be content with your pay."

Now when the people were in expectation, and many reasoned in their hearts respecting John, whether he were the Messiah,

Then Herod the Tetrarch; when he was rebuked of him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done;

Now it came about that when all the people had been given baptism, Jesus, having had baptism with them, was in prayer, when, the heaven being open,

And Jesus himself, when he began to teach , was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the'son of Heli,

For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.

And when all these tests were ended the Evil One went away from him for a time.

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,

And the volume of Isaiah the prophet was given to him: and when he had unrolled the volume, he found the place where it was written:

to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord [the day when salvation and the favor of God abound greatly].”

And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.

Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;

And all who were in the Synagogue were very angry when these things were said to them.

And Jesus said to him, Be quiet, and come out of him. And when the evil spirit had put him down on the earth in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no damage.

When he got up to leave the synagogue he went to the house of Simon. Simon's mother-in-law was laid up with a severe attack of fever, so they asked him about her;

And when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

And when it was day, he came out and went to a waste place; and great numbers of people came looking for him, and they came to him and would have kept him from going away.

And when the people were pressing on Him to hear the word of God, as He stood by the lake of Gennesareth, seeing two vessels at the edge of the lake,

And when his talk was ended, he said to Simon, Go out into deep water, and let down your nets for fish.

And when they had done this, they got such a great number of fish that it seemed as if their nets would be broken;

And they beckoned to their partners that were in the other ship, to come and help them; and they came, and filled both the ships, so that they were even sinking: and when Simon Peter saw it,

But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.

And when they had got their boats to the land, they gave up everything and went after him.

And it came about that while he was in one of the towns, there was a leper there: and when he saw Jesus he went down on his face in prayer to him, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.

On one of those days, when Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and Doctors of the Law were sitting near by. (They had come from all the villages in Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was upon Jesus, so that he could work cures.)

but when they could not find what way to bring him in because of the croud, they went up on the battlements of the house, and let him down from the roof with his couch, into the midst before Jesus,

And when he saw their faith, he said to him: Man, your sins are forgiven you.

When Jesus became aware of the way in which they were debating, he turned to them and exclaimed: "What are you debating with yourselves?

And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?

but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, then they will fast.

And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read what David did, when he himself was hungry and those that were with him? how he went into the house of God,

On another Sabbath He went into the synagogue and taught, and a man was present whose right hand was withered.

Then He looked around at all of them [there] and said to the man, "Reach out your hand." And [when] he did this, his hand was restored [to normal use].

And when it was day, He called his disciples to Him: and chose out twelve from among them, whom He also named his apostles:

Those of you who now have an appetite [i.e., for doing what is right] are blessed, because you will be satisfied [eventually]. Those of you who cry now [i.e., over your sins] are blessed, because you will laugh [i.e., when you are forgiven later].

Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and reject you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as infamous on account of the Son of man.

Be glad when that happens, and leap for joy, for you will be richly rewarded in heaven, for that is the way their forefathers treated the prophets.

Wo unto you when all men speak well of you; for their fathers did the same to the false prophets.

When a man gives one of you a blow on the cheek, offer the other cheek as well; and, when any one takes away your cloak, do not keep back your coat either.

Give to every one who asks of you; and, when any one takes away what is yours, do not demand its return.

Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over [with no space left for more]. For with the standard of measurement you use [when you do good to others], it will be measured to you in return.”

The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher.

or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother let me take out the splinter that is in thine eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first take out the beam from thine own eye, and then thou wilt see distinctly how to take out the chaff that is in thy brother's eye.

he is like a man who in building an house digged deep, and laid the foundation upon a rock; and when a flood came, the torrent beat violently against that house, but could not shake it, for it was founded upon a rock.

But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.

Now when He had finished his discourse in the audience of the people, He entered into Capernaum: and a certain centurion's servant,

But when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, entreating him that he would come and preserve the life of his servant.

And when they came to Jesus, they intreated Him earnestly, saying, he is worthy of this favor:

So Jesus went with them. And when He was now not far from the house, the centurion sent some of his friends to Him, saying Lord, trouble not thyself, for I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof:

And when Jesus heard these things, He marvelled, and turning about, said to the multitude that followed Him, I declare unto you, I have not found so great faith, no not in Israel.

And when they that were sent, returned to the house, they found the servant well, that had been sick.

Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.

And when the Lord saw her, He was moved with compassion for her, and said to her, Do not weep.

And when the men came to him they said, John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?

When the messengers of John were departed, He began to speak unto the people concerning John, what went ye out into the wilderness to see?

And all the people when they heard it, and the publicans, glorified God, being baptised with the baptism of John.

for John the Baptist, when he came, abstain'd from bread and wine; yet you say, he is possess'd with a demon.

And behold a woman in the city, that was a sinner, when she knew that He was at table in the pharisee's house,

But when the pharisee that invited Him saw it, he said within himself, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what sort of a woman this is that toucheth Him; for she is a notorious sinner.

When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him?

Then turning to the woman he said to Simon, "You see this woman? When I came into your house, you never gave me water for my feet, while she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair;

You did not give me a kiss: but she, from the time when I came in, has gone on kissing my feet.