Theme: The Birth of Jesus Christ: the King of Kings, Bible text description: [1]

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

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Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

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It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

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That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

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There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

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And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.