Luke 1:1-22 ▼

1 For as moche as many have take in hand to compyle a treates of thoo thinges which are surely knowen amonge vs

2 even as they declared them vnto vs which from the beginnynge sawe them their selves and were ministers at the doyng:

3 I determined also assone as I had searched out diligently all thinges from the beginnynge that then I wolde wryte vnto the good Theophilus:

4 that thou myghtest knowe the certente of thoo thinges wher of thou arte informed.

5 There was in the dayes of Herode kynge of Iurie a certayne prest named Zacharias of ye course of Abia. And his wyfe was of ye doughters of Aaron: And her name was Elizabeth.

6 Booth were perfect before God and walked in all the lawes and ordinaces of the Lorde that no man coulde fynde fawte with them.

7 And they had no chylde because that Elizabeth was barre and booth were well stricken in age.

8 And it cam to passe as he executed the prestes office before god as his course came

9 (accordinge to the custome of the prestes office) his lot was to bourne incece.

10 And wet into ye teple of ye Lorde and the whoale multitude of ye people were with out in prayer whill the incense was aburnynge.

11 And ther appered vnto him an angell of the lorde stondinge on the ryght syde of the altare of incense.

12 And when Zacharias sawe him he was abasshed and feare came on him.

13 And the angell sayde vnto him: feare not Zachary for thy prayer is hearde: And thy wyfe Elizabeth shall beare ye a sonne and thou shalt call his name Iohn

14 and thou shalt have ioye and gladnes and many shall reioyce at his birth.

15 For he shalbe greate in the sight of the lorde and shall nether drinke wyne ner stronge drinke. And he shalbe filled with the holy goost even in his mothers wombe:

16 and many of the chyldren o f Israel shall he tourne to their Lorde God.

17 And he shall goo before him in the sprete and power of Helyas to tourne the hertes of the fathers to the chyldren and the vnbelevers to the wysdom of the iuste men: to make the people redy for the Lorde.

18 And Zacharias sayde vnto ye angell: Wher by shall I knowe this? seinge that I am olde and my wyfe well stricken in yeares.

19 And the angell answered and sayde vnto him: I am Gabriell that stonde in the presens of God and am sent to speake vnto the: and to shewe the these glad tydinges.

20 And beholde thou shalt be domme and not able to speake vntyll the tyme that these thinges be performed because thou belevedst not my wordes which shalbe fulfilled in their season.

21 And the people wayted for Zacharias and mervelled that he taryed in the temple.

22 And whe he cam oute he could not speake vnto them. Wherby they perceaved that he had sene some vision in the temple. And he beckened vnto them and remayned speachlesse.