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As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, Who have been from of old,

To perform his grace with our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant;

And thou, child, the Prophet of the Most High Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, And thou shalt prepare his way;

To give the knowledge of salvation to his people In the forgiveness of their sins,

And the child grew, and was strong in the spirit, and was in the desert till the day of his manifestation unto Isroel.

NOW it was in those days that there went forth a mandate from Augustus Caesar to enrol the people of his dominion.

And every man went to be enrolled in his city.

with Mariam his espoused while with child, there to be enrolled.

AND when the eight days completed to circumcise the child, his name was called Jeshu, for he was so called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb

Behold, this man came in the Spirit to the temple, and when his parents [fn] brought in Jeshu the child, to do for him as it is commanded in the law,

he took him upon his arms and blessed Aloha, and said,

But Jauseph and his mother wondered at these words which were spoken concerning him.

And Shemun blessed them, and said to Mariam his mother, Behold, this child is set for the ruin and uprising of many in Isroel, for the sign of contention.

And his relatives [fn] every year went unto Urishlem at the feast of Petscha.

And when the days (were) fulfilled, they returned. But Jeshu, the child, remained in Urishlem, and Jauseph and his mother knew not.

And all of them were astonished, as they heard him, at his wisdom and at his answers.

And when they saw him, they wondered; and his mother said to him, My son, why hast thou done with us thus? for, behold, I and thy father with great anxiety have sought thee.

And he went down with them, and came to Natsrath, and was subject to them. But his mother kept all these words in her heart.

But Jeshu increased in his stature, and in his wisdom, and in favour with Aloha and men.

NOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberios Cesar, in the government of Pontios Pilatos in Jehud, Herodes being chief [fn] of the Fourth in Galila, and Philipos his brother chief of the Fourth in Ituria and in the region of Trakona, and Lusania chief of the Fourth of Abilini;