Luke 1:1-13

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

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

³It 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,

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

⁵In 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.

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

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

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

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

¹⁰And the whole multitude of the people were without in prayer, while the incense was burning.

¹¹Then appeared vnto him an Angel of the Lord standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

¹²And when Zacharias sawe him, he was troubled, and feare fell vpon him.

¹³But the Angel saide vnto him, Feare not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard, and thy wise Elisabet shall beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iohn.