just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”

“The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah,

in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

The Birth of Jesus

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.

(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”),

and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends.

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read,

At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them.

Jesus Calls His First Disciples

One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God.

Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man

One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick.

But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”

The Twelve Apostles

One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.

“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Jesus Calms the Storm

One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out.

And he said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”

The Transfiguration

About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray.