so that you may be reliably informed about the things you have been taught.

And the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to name him John.

The angel answered, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the very presence of God. I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.

for today, in the town of David, a Savior for you has been born who is your Messiah and Lord.

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

And the shepherds went back glorifying God and praising him for all that they had heard and seen in fulfilment of what they had been told.

It had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he should not die without seeing the Lord's Messiah.

There was also a prophetess there named Hannah, the daughter of Phanuel, who belonged to the tribe of Asher. She was very old, for after her girlhood she had been married for seven years,

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

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."

And the devil said to him, "I will give you all this power and their splendor, for it has been turned over to me, and I can give it to anyone I please.

Jesus answered, "We have been told, 'You shall not try the Lord your God.' "

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

And he began by saying to them, "This passage of Scripture has been fulfilled here in your hearing today!"

And he got up at once before them all, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home, praising God.

and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness??ary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven,

For he was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For it had often seized him, and though he had been fastened with chains and fetters, and was closely watched, he would snap his bonds and the demon would drive him away to the desert.

And those who had seen it told them how the man who had been possessed was cured.

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom nobody had been able to cure,

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.

Peter and his companions had been overcome by sleep, but waking up they saw his glorious appearance and the two men standing by him.

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes!

Everything has been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, nor who the Father is but the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute'??50 so that this age may be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the creation of the world,

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

But one who does wrong without knowing them will be lightly punished. From anyone who has been given much, much will be required, and of the man to whom people have intrusted much, they will demand even more.

Then you will go on to say, 'We have been entertained with you, and you have taught in our streets!'

"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,

And the slave said, 'What you ordered, sir, has been done, and there is still room.'

He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the calf he has been fattening, because he has gotten him back alive and well.'

But when your son here came, who has eaten up your property with women of the street, for him you killed the calf you have been fattening!'

But he said to him, 'My child, you have been with me all the time, and everything I have is yours.

And if you have been untrustworthy about what belonged to someone else, who will give you what belongs to you?

Until John came, it was the Law and the Prophets. From that time the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone has been crowding into it.

Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and whoever marries a woman who has been divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Is he grateful to the slave for doing what he has been ordered to do?

So you also, when you do all you have been ordered to do, must say, 'We are good-for-nothing slaves! We have done only what we ought to have done!' "

and said to them, "Go to the village that lies in front of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

For the Son of Man is going his way, as it has been decreed, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!"

And Herod and Pilate became friends that day, for they had been at enmity before.

(He was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had taken place in the city and for murder.)

He released the man they asked for, who had been put in prison for riot and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.

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

and learned from them that the Master had really risen and had been seen by Simon.