Luke 1:1-9 ▼

1 Forasmuch as many haue taken in hand to set foorth the storie of those things, whereof we are fully persuaded,

2 As they haue deliuered them vnto vs, which from the beginning saw them their selues, & were ministers of ye word,

3 It seemed good also to me ( most noble Theophilus) assoone as I had searched out perfectly all things from the beginning, to write vnto thee thereof from point to point,

4 That thou mightest acknowledge the certaintie of those things, whereof thou hast bene instructed.

5 In the time of Herod King of Iudea, there was a certaine Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabet.

6 Both were iust before God, and walked in all the commandements and ordinances of the Lord, without reproofe.

7 And they had no childe, because that Elisabet was barren: and both were well stricken in age.

8 And it came to passe, as he executed the Priestes office before God, as his course came in order,

9 According to the custome of the Priests office, his lot was to burne incense, when he went into the Temple of the Lord.