Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

just as they were passed down to us by those who had been eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning,

That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy supplication has been heard, and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

And the angel answering, said to him, I am Gabriel, who stand before God, and I have been sent to speak to thee, and to bring these glad tidings to thee;

"This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people."

to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

And the angel came in to her and said, Peace be with you, to whom special grace has been given; the Lord is with you.

Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?”

And blessed is'she that believed; for there shall be a fulfilment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord.

And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.

As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,

He went there to be registered with Mary, who had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant.

for to-day a Saviour has been born to you in David's city, who is Christ the Lord.

And when the angels went from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let us go to Bethlehem, and see this which hath been told us, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

and having seen it they made known about the country the thing which had been said to them concerning this child.

And all who heard [it] were astonished concerning what had been said to them by the shepherds.

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all things which they had heard and seen, as it had been said to them.

And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called Jesus, which was the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

as it hath been written in the Law of the Lord, -- 'Every male opening a womb shall be called holy to the Lord,'

and to offer a sacrifice according to that which has been written in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons.

And it had been revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

As soon as all that the law required had been done, they returned to Galilee to their own town, Nazareth.

But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.

When they saw Him, they were overwhelmed; and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You treated us like this? Listen, Your father and I have been [greatly distressed and] anxiously looking for You.”

"Why is it that you have been searching for me?" He replied; "did you not know that it is my duty to be engaged upon my Father's business?"

as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, 'A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths;

Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

He told them, “Don’t collect any more than what you have been authorized.”

But when Herod [Antipas] the tetrarch was repeatedly reprimanded [and convicted by John’s disapproval] for having Herodias, his brother’s wife [as his own], and for all the wicked things that Herod had done,

Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that, Jesus also having been baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River [i.e., where He had been immersed. See 3:21] and was led by the Holy Spirit [See Matt. 4:1] into the desert.

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

And Jesus answered him, saying, 'It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.'

And the devil said unto him, To thee will I give all this authority, and the glory of them: for it hath been delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

And Jesus answering him said, 'Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

for it hath been written -- To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

And Jesus answering said to him -- 'It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

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:

"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,

And he began to say unto them, To-day hath this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

And He said to them, You truly speak to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself: so many things as we heard having been done in Capernaum, do also here in thy own country.

and having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built -- to cast him down headlong,

And it having been day, having gone forth he went into a deserted place: and the crowds sought him, and came to him, and detained him not to go from them.

But he said to them, I must needs announce the glad tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for for this I have been sent forth.

"We have been hard at work all night, Sir," answered Simon, "and have not caught anything, but, at your bidding, I will throw out the nets."

And lo, men bearing upon a couch a man, who hath been struck with palsy, and they were seeking to bring him in, and to place before him,

and he having seen their faith, said to him, 'Man, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

which is easier -- to say, Thy sins have been forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, and walk?

He immediately stood up before them, picked up his stretcher, and went home glorifying and praising God.

But days will come when also the bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then shall they fast in those days.

No one who has been drinking old wine wants new wine, because he says, "The old wine is good enough!'"

But unhappy are you who have wealth: for you have been comforted now.

Woe to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. 'Woe to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.

A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been well builded.

And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.

The man who had been dead sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

And fear seized on all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has been raised up amongst us; and God has visited his people.

this is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;

I tell you, no one has ever been born who is greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

(And all the people who heard it, and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;

but the Pharisees and the lawyers rendered null as to themselves the counsel of God, not having been baptised by him.)

and wisdom has been justified of all her children.

And behold a woman in the city, who had been a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at table in the Pharisee's house,

And stood at his feet behind, weeping, been to wet his feet with tears, and wiped with the hairs of her head; and she kissed his feet, and anointed with the perfumed oil.

But the Pharisee who had invited him, seeing it, spake within himself, saying, This one, if he were the prophet, would have been taking note, who and of what sort, is the woman, who is even touching him, that she is, a sinner.

And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair.

you did not salute me, but this woman, since she came in, has been continually kissing my feet.

therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'

And he said to her, 'Thy sins have been forgiven;'

And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,

And he said, 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

And it was reported to Him, "Thy mother and Thy brothers have been standing without, wishing to see Thee."

And when he came out upon the land, there met him a certain man from the city, who had been possessed with demons for a long time, and who wore no clothes, and dwelt in no house, but in the tombs.

For he had commanded the unclean spirit to go out from the man. For very often it had seized him; and he had been bound, kept with chains and fetters; and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the deserts.

And they who had been feeding them, seeing what had happened, fled, and carried tidings into the city, and into the country-places.

People went out to see [i.e., to find out] what had happened. And [when] they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the evil spirits had been driven out sitting down at Jesus' feet with his clothes on and perfectly sane, they were afraid.

And they also who had seen it told them how the possessed man had been healed.

And all the people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, because they had been seized with great fear. So he got into the boat [and] returned.

But the man from whom the evil spirits had been driven out begged Jesus to allow him to travel with Him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

Now when Jesus was returning, the people gave Him a warm welcome; for they had all been looking out for Him.

Now a man named Jairus, a synagogue official, came [to Him]; and he fell at Jesus’ feet and began begging Him to come to his house;

And a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with haemorrhage--and had spent on doctors all she had, but none of them had been able to cure her--

When the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came up trembling and fell down before Him. She declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed.

And her parents were amazed: but he charged them to tell no man what had been done.

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 he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them, and when they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

And it came to pass, as he had been praying in retirement, his disciples were with him, and he asked them, Who do the multitudes say that I am?

For what doth a man profit, who hath gained the whole world, but hath lost, or been made to forfeit, himself?

For whosoever shall have been ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come in his glory, and in that of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Who, having been seen in glory spake of his exit which he was about to complete in Jerusalem.

Now Peter and the men with him had been overcome by sleep. When they woke up, they saw Jesus' glory and the two men standing with him.

And in there having been a voice, Jesus was found alone. And they were silent, and announced nothing to any one in those days, of what they had seen.

And answering, Jesus said, O unbelieving generation, one having been perverted, how long shall I be with you and endure you? Bring your son here.