Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord."

(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Messiah.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

But he said to them, "I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent."

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.

and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.

Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done.

"Woe to you, Chorazin. Woe to you, Bethsaida. For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

"All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed."

Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been placed.