Luke 1:16-25

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

¹⁷And 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.

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

¹⁹And 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.

²⁰And 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.

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

²²And when 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.

²³And it fortuned assone as the tyme of his office was oute he departed home into his awne housse.

²⁴And after thoose dayes his wyfe Elizabeth conceaved and hyd her sylfe .v. monethes sayinge:

²⁵This wyse hath God dealte with me in the dayes when he loked on me to take from me the rebuke that I suffred amonge men.