3I myself have studied these accounts carefully. So I decided that it would be good for me also to write for you (sg) an accurate account of these matters.
4I want you to know the truth about what you have been taught {what others have taught you}.
5When King Herod the Great ruled Judea district, there was a Jewish priest named Zechariah. He belonged to the group of priests called the Abijah group. He and his wife Elizabeth were both descended from the first priest of Israel, Aaron.
6God considered that both of them were righteous, because they constantly completely obeyed everything that God had commanded.
7But they had no children, because Elizabeth had been unable to bear children. Furthermore, she and her husband were very old.
8One day Zechariah's group was doing their work in the Temple in Jerusalem, and he was serving as a priest in God's presence.
9Following their custom, the other priests chose him by lot to enter the Lord's temple and burn incense.
10While he was burning the incense, many people were outside in the courtyard, praying.
11Then an angel whom God had sent appeared to him. The angel was standing at the right side of the place where the priests burned incense.
Luke 1
Luke 1:3-11