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Gabriel Predicts John’s Birth
In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest of Abijah’s division named Zechariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
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Now listen. You will become silent and unable to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”
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When the days of his ministry were completed, he went back home.
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After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived and kept herself in seclusion for five months. She said,
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“The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace among the people.”
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Mary’s Visit to Elizabeth
In those days Mary set out and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah
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When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.
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in holiness and righteousness in his presence all our days.
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The child grew up and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
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The Birth of Jesus
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered.
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The Circumcision and Presentation of Jesus
When the eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus—the name given by the angel before he was conceived.
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And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were finished, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
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and was a widow for eighty-four years. She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.
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After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.
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Assuming he was in the traveling party, they went a day’s journey. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends.
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After three days, they found him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
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for forty days to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, he was hungry.
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Rejection at Nazareth
He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. As usual, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.
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But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.
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When it was day, he went out and made his way to a deserted place. But the crowds were searching for him. They came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.
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The Son of Man Forgives and Heals
On one of those days while he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and also from Jerusalem. And the Lord’s power to heal was in him.
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But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them—then they will fast in those days.”
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The Twelve Apostles
During those days he went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God.
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When daylight came, he summoned his disciples, and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:
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“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. Take note—your reward is great in heaven, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.
