Luke 1:3-11

³I have read those stories, and I have talked to those people, and I checked up on everything they said, right from the start. So now I am carefully writing this book for you.

⁴You already heard some of this, but I want you to know the true story, and I want you to be sure about it.

⁵At the time when Herod was big boss of Judea country there was a man there called Zechariah. He was a man that looked after the Jewish ceremonies. He belonged to a group that did the Jewish ceremonies called Abijah’s mob. His wife too belonged to a family of Jewish ceremony people. Her name was Elizabeth.

⁶Those 2, Zechariah and Elizabeth, were very good people. They did everything in God’s law, and God liked the way they lived.

⁷They lived that way for a long time, but they didn’t have any kids. Elizabeth just couldn’t have a baby. And they got very old.

⁸Zechariah belonged to that group that did the Jewish ceremonies, and the time came for them to do those ceremonies in God’s ceremony house in Jerusalem city.

⁹One day it was Zechariah’s turn to go into the special room in that house and burn some stuff to make a good smell.

¹⁰While he was doing that a big mob of people were outside, and they were praying.

¹¹Then God sent one of his angel messengers to that room, and he stood beside the metal table where that stuff was burning.