The New Testament Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO S. LUKE. I i Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters 2 which have been ' fulfill... more »ed among us, even as i Or, fully they delivered them unto us, which from the estab'ish'd beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of 3 the word, it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write unto thee in order, most 4 excellent Theophilus ; that thou mightest know the certainty concerning the 2 things 3wherein ' Gr. words. thou wast instructed. " Or. '"hich thou wast taught by word 5 There was in the days of Herod, king of f"A Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah : and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisa- 6 beth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and 7 ordinances of the Lord blameless. And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now 4well stricken in ' Gr. advanced years. i their day. 8 Now it came to pass, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his 9 course, according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to enter into the 6 temple 'Or,saKlnay 10 of the Lord and burn incense. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the hour of incense. And there ap- n peared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And i2 Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. But the angel said unto 13 him, Fear not, Zacharias: because thy supplication is heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and 14 many shall rejoice at hi...« less