Luke 1:1-9 ▼

1 Since, indeed, many have attempted to set in order a narrative of the things that have been completed among us,

2 just as they have been handed on to those of us who from the beginning saw the same and were ministers of the word,

3 so it seemed good to me also, having diligently followed everything from the beginning, to write to you, in an orderly manner, most excellent Theophilus,

4 so that you might know the truthfulness of those words by which you have been instructed.

5 There was, in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah, of the section of Abijah, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

6 Now they were both just before God, progressing in all of the commandments and the justifications of the Lord without blame.

7 And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both had become advanced in years.

8 Then it happened that, when he was exercising the priesthood before God, in the order of his section,

9 according to the custom of the priesthood, the lot fell so that he would offer incense, entering into the temple of the Lord.