Luke 1:3-11

³bitaken, it is seen also to me, hauynge alle thingis diligentli bi ordre, to write to thee,

⁴thou best Theofile, that thou knowe the treuthe of tho wordis, of whiche thou art lerned.

⁵In the daies of Eroude, kyng of Judee, ther was a prest, Sakarie bi name, of the sorte of Abia, and his wijf was of the douytris of Aaron, and hir name was Elizabeth.

⁶And bothe weren iust bifor God, goynge in alle the maundementis and iustifiyngis of the Lord, withouten pleynt.

⁷And thei hadden no child, for Elizabeth was bareyn, and bothe weren of grete age in her daies.

⁸And it bifel, that whanne Zacarie schulde do the office of preesthod, in the ordre of his cours tofor God,

⁹aftir the custome of the preesthod, he wente forth bi lot, and entride in to the temple, to encense.

¹⁰And al the multitude of the puple was with outforth, and preiede in the our of encensyng.

¹¹And an aungel of the Lord apperide to hym, and stood on the riythalf of the auter of encense.