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And Zacharias his father was filled with [the] Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

Blessed be [the] Lord the God of Israel, because he has visited and wrought redemption for his people,

and raised up a horn of deliverance for us in the house of David his servant;

as he spoke by [the] mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began;

to fulfil mercy with our fathers and remember his holy covenant,

And *thou*, child, shalt be called [the] prophet of [the] Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of [the] Lord to make ready his ways;

to give knowledge of deliverance to his people by [the] remission of their sins

—And the child grew and was strengthened in spirit; and he was in the deserts until the day of his shewing to Israel.

And all went to be inscribed in the census roll, each to his own city:

to be inscribed in the census roll with Mary who was betrothed to him [as his] wife, she being great with child.

And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called Jesus, which was the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

*he* received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

And his father and mother wondered at the things which were said concerning him.

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Lo, this [child] is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;

And his parents went yearly to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.

and had completed the days, as they returned, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, and his parents knew not [of it];

And all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

And when they saw him they were amazed: and his mother said to him, Child, why hast thou dealt thus with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee distressed.

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

Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,