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and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

just as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times—

to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,

And so you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go on before the Lord to prepare his ways,

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

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

And everyone went to be registered, each one to his own town.

And when eight days were completed so that he could be circumcised, he was named Jesus, his name that he was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

he took him in his arms and praised God and said,

And his father and mother were astonished at what was said about him.

And Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, "Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed—

And his parents went every year to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover.

And after the days were completed, while they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. And his parents did not know it,

And all who heard him were amazed at his insight and his answers.

And when they saw him, they were astounded and his mother said to him, "Child, why have you done this to us? Look, your father and I have been searching for you anxiously!"

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was submitting to them. And his mother treasured all these things in her heart.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight!

John answered them all, saying, "I baptize you with water, but the one who is more powerful than I am is coming, of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

His winnowing shovel is in his hand, to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."