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

Once when he was acting as priest before God, when his division was on duty,

When Zechariah saw him he was startled and overcome with fear.

Now you will keep silent and be unable to speak until the day when this happens, because you have not believed what I have said, for it will all be fulfilled in due time."

But when he came out he could not speak to them, and they knew that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. For his part, he kept making signs to them, and remained dumb.

And when his period of service was over, he went back to his home.

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

When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the babe stirred within her. And Elizabeth was filled with the holy Spirit

And the child grew up and became strong in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he proclaimed himself to Israel.

It was the first census, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

When the angels left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Come! Let us go over to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has happened, that the Lord has told us of!"

When they saw this, they told what had been said to them about this child.

When he was eight days old and it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, as the angel had named him, before his birth was first expected.

When their purification period under the Law of Moses was over, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,

And under the Spirit's influence he went into the Temple, and when Jesus' parents brought him there to do for him what the Law required,

When they had done everything that the Law of the Lord required, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual to the festival and made their customary stay.

When they started back the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents' knowledge.

When his parents saw him they were amazed, and his mother said to him. "My child, why did you treat us like this? Here your father and I have been looking for you, and have been very anxious."

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod governor of Galilee, while his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the governor of Abilene,

Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also after his baptism was praying, heaven opened

Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his work. He was the son, it was supposed, of Joseph, the son of Eli,

for forty days by the Spirit, and was tempted by the devil. In all those days he ate nothing, and when they were over he was famished.

When the devil had tried every kind of temptation he left him till another time.

But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land,

And when the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all very angry,

When he got up and left the synagogue, he went to Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was suffering with a severe attack of fever, and they asked him about her.

When it was day, he left the house and made his way to a lonely spot, and crowds of people went in search of him, and overtook him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

When he stopped speaking, he said to Simon, "Push out into deep water, and then put down your nets for a haul."

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' feet and said, "Leave me, Master, for I am a sinful man."

When he was in one of the towns, he came upon a man covered with leprosy. And when he saw Jesus he fell down on his face, and begged him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

When he saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven!"

But other days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, in those days they will fast."

Jesus answered, "Have you not read even what David did, when he and his companions were hungry?

When day came, he called his disciples to him, and chose twelve of them whom he named apostles:

"Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you and spurn the name you bear as evil, 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.

"Alas for you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is the way their forefathers treated the false prophets!

A pupil is not better than his teacher, but every pupil when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when you cannot see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get out the speck in your brother's eye.

He is like a man who was building a house, who dug deep and laid his foundation upon the rock, and when there was a flood the torrent burst upon that house and could not shake it, because it was well built.

When he had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he went to Capernaum.

When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, to ask him to come and save his slave's life.

So Jesus went with them. But when he was not far from the house, the captain sent some friends to him, to say to him, "Master, do not take any more trouble, for I am not a suitable person to have you under my roof.

When Jesus heard this, he was astonished at him, and turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such faith as this even in Israel!"

And when the messengers went back to the house, they found the slave well.

And when the Master saw her, he pitied her, and said to her, "Do not weep."

When John's messengers were gone, he began to speak to the crowds about John. "What was it that you went out into the desert to look at? A reed swaying in the wind?

And all the people, even the tax-collectors, when they heard him, acknowledged the justice of God's demands, by accepting baptism from John,

"For when John the Baptist came, he did not eat any bread or drink any wine, and you said, 'He has a demon!'

Now there was a woman in the town who was leading a sinful life, and when she learned that he was having dinner at the Pharisee's house, she got an alabaster flask of perfume,

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

When a great throng was gathering and people were coming to him from one town after another, he said in his figurative way,

And some of it fell upon the rock, and when it sprang up it withered, because it had no moisture.

The ones on the rock are those who receive the message joyfully when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for a little while, and then in the time of trial they draw back.

And when he landed, he met a man possessed by demons, who was coming out of the town. He had worn no clothing for a long time, and did not live in a house but in the tombs.

When he saw Jesus he cried out and threw himself down before him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around.

When Jesus returned, the people welcomed him, for they were all watching for him.

When the woman saw that she had not escaped his notice, she came forward trembling, and fell down before him, and before all the people told why she had touched him, and how she had been cured at once.

When he got to the house, he let no one go in with him but Peter, John, and James, and the child's father and mother.

When the day began to decline, the Twelve came up and said to him, "Send the crowd away to the villages and farms around to find food and shelter, for we are in a lonely place here."

Once when he was praying by himself, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"

For if anyone is ashamed of me and my teaching the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he comes with all the glory of his Father and of the holy angels.

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, it happened that a great crowd met him.

As the time approached when he was to be taken up to heaven, he set his face toward Jerusalem,

When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Master, will you have us order fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

The seventy-two came back delighted, and said, "Master, when we use your name the very demons submit to us!"

And he turned to his disciples when they were alone, and said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead.

Now a priest happened to be going that way, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side of the road.

And a Levite also came to the place, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.

But a Samaritan who was traveling that way came upon him, and when he saw him he pitied him,

Once as he was praying in a certain place, when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Father, your name be revered! Your kingdom come!

Once he was driving out a dumb demon, and when the demon was gone the dumb man spoke. And the people were amazed.

When a strong man fully armed guards his own dwelling, his property is undisturbed.

But when somebody stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he strips him of the arms that he relied on, and divides up the spoils.

When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest, and when it finds none, it says, 'I will go back to my house that I left.'

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is sound, your whole body is light, but when it is unsound, your body is dark.

When he said this, a Pharisee asked him to lunch with him, and he went to his house and took his place at table.

At this, one of the experts in the Law said to him, "Master, when you say that, you affront us too."

When they bring you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, you must have no anxiety about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

Blessed are the slaves whom their master will find on the watch when he comes. I tell you, he will gird up his robe and make them take their places at table, and go around and wait on them.

You must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him."

Blessed is that slave if his master when he returns finds him doing it.

that slave's master will come back some day when he does not expect him, and at some time of which he does not know, and will cut him in two, and put him with the unbelievers.

And he said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say at once, 'It is going to rain,' and it does.

And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'It is going to be very hot,' and it is.

For when you are going before the magistrate with your opponent, do your best on the way to get rid of him, or he may hurry you off to the judge and the judge hand you over to the constable and the constable throw you into prison.

Or those eighteen people at Siloam who were killed when the tower fell upon them??o you think they were worse offenders than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?

When Jesus saw her he called to her, "You are freed from your sickness!"

When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, and all the people were delighted at all the splendid things that he did.

when the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock on the door, and say, 'Open it for us, sir!' Then he will answer you and say, 'I do not know where you come from,'

There you will weep and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are put outside.

One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.

"When someone invites you to a wedding supper, do not take the best place, for someone more distinguished than you are may have been invited,

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the poorest place, so that when your host comes in, he will say to you, 'My friend, come to a better place.' So you will be shown consideration before all the other guests.

And he said to the man who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, for then they will invite you in return and you will be repaid.