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|Lucas 1:1| Many people have tried to tell the story of what God has done among us.
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|Lucas 1:2| They wrote what we had been told by the ones who were there in the beginning and saw what happened.
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|Lucas 1:3| So I made a careful study 1 of everything and then decided to write and tell you exactly what took place. Honorable Theophilus,
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|Lucas 1:4| I have done this to let you know the truth about what you have heard.
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An Angel Tells about the Birth of John
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|Lucas 1:5| a When Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest by the name of Zechariah from the priestly group of Abijah. His wife Elizabeth was from the family of Aaron. 2
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|Lucas 1:6| Both of them were good people and pleased the Lord God by obeying all that he had commanded.
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|Lucas 1:7| But they did not have children. Elizabeth could not have any, and both Zechariah and Elizabeth were already old.
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|Lucas 1:8| One day Zechariah's group of priests were on duty, and he was serving God as a priest.
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|Lucas 1:9| According to the custom of the priests, he had been chosen to go into the Lord's temple that day and to burn incense, 3
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|Lucas 1:10| while the people stood outside praying.
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