exactly as these have been handed down to us by the original eyewitnesses who were in the service of the Gospel Message,

to let you know the solid truth of what you have been taught.

but the angel said to him, "Fear not, Zechariah, your prayer has been heard; your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you, and you must call his name John.

The angel replied, "I am Gabriel, I stand before God; I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.

When they saw this they told people about the word which had been spoken to them about the child;

Then the shepherds went away back, glorifying and extolling God for all they had heard and seen as they had been told they would.

When the eight days had passed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus ??the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

indeed it had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he was not to see death before he had seen the Lord messiah.

and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

When his parents saw him they were astounded, and his mother said to him, "My son, why have you behaved like this to us? Here have your father and I been looking for you anxiously!"

But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife as well as for all the wickedness that he, Herod, had committed,

Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened

and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose.

Jesus answered him, "It has been said, You shall not tempt the Lord your God."

Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson

Instantly he got up before them, lifted what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.

He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.

(On hearing this all the people and the taxgatherers acknowledged the justice of God, as they had been baptized with the baptism of John;

and by some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses, Mary called Magdalene (out of whom seven daemons had been driven),

(For he had charged the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many a time when it had seized hold of him, he had been fastened secure in fetters and chains, but he would snap his bonds and be driven by the daemon into the desert.)

So when the woman saw she had not escaped notice, she came trembling, and falling down before him she told before all the people why she had touched him and how she had been instantly cured.

Now Peter and his companions had been overpowered with sleep, but on waking up they saw his glory and the two men who were standing beside him.

Woe to you, Khorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have been sitting penitent in sackcloth and ashes.

"All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

"When anyone invites you to a marriage-banquet," he said, "never lie down in the best place, in case a more distinguished guest than yourself has been invited;

When the servant announced, 'Your order has been carried out, sir, but there is still room,'

but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.

We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

However he secured the royal power and came home. Then he ordered the servants to be called who had been given the money, that he might find out what business they had done.

And that the dead are raised has been indicated by Moses in the passage on the Bush, when he calls the Lord 'God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.'

The Son of man moves to his end indeed as it has been decreed, but woe to the man by whom he is betrayed!"

Herod and Pilate became friends that day ??previously they had been at enmity.

(This was a man who had been put into prison on account of a riot which had taken place in the city and also on a charge of murder.)

he released the man they wanted, the man who had been imprisoned for riot and murder, and Jesus he handed over to their will.

One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well."

He then took it down, wrapped it in linen, and put it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

and one of them, called Cleopas, answered him, "Are you a lone stranger in Jerusalem, not to know what has been happening there?"