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§Luke’s Prologue

1.1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things which have been accomplished among us,

1.2 just as they were delivered to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

1.3 it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent The-oph’ilus,

1.4 that you may know the truth concerning the things of which you have been informed.

1.5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechari’ah, of the division of Abi’jah; and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

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

1.7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years. 1.8 Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,

1.9 according to the custom of the priesthood, it fell to him by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

1.10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

1.11 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

§ John the Baptist

1.1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

1.2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way;

1.3 the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight–”

1.4 John the baptiser appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

1.5 And there went out to him all the country of Judea, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

1.6 Now John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leather girdle around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey.

§ The Genealogy of Jesus

1.1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham

1.2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

1.3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,

1.4 and Ram the father of Ammin’adab, and Ammin’adab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,

1.5 and Salmon the father of Bo’az by Rahab, and Bo’az the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,

1.6 and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uri’ah,

1.7 and Solomon the father of Rehobo’am, and Rehobo’am the father of Abi’jah, and Abi’jah the father of Asa,

1.8 and Asa the father of Jehosh’aphat, and Jehosh’aphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzzi’ah,

1.9 and Uzzi’ah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezeki’ah,

1.10 and Hezeki’ah the father of Manas’seh, and Manas’seh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josi’ah,

AFTER THE LORD HAD DANCED WITH US, my beloved, he went out. And we were like men amazed or fast asleep, and we fled this way and that. And so I saw him suffer, and did not wait by his suffering , but fled to the Mount of Olives and wept at what had come to pass. And when he was hung upon the cross on Friday, at the sixth hour of the day there came a darkness over the whole earth.

And my Lord stood in the middle of the cave and gave light to it and said, “John, for the people below in Jerusalem. I am being crucified and pierced with lances and reeds and given vinegar and gall to drink. But to you ¡ am speaking, and listen to what i speak. I put into your mind to come up to this mountain so that you may hear what a disciple should learn from his teacher and a man of God.”

And when he had said this he showed me a cross of light firmly fixed, and around the cross a great crowd, which had no single form; and in the cross was another form and the same likeness. And I saw the Lord himself above the cross, having no shape but only a kind of voice; yet not that voice that we knew, but one that was sweet and gentle and truly the voice of God, which said to me: “John, there must be one man to hear these things from me: for I need one who is ready to hear.

This cross of Light is sometimes called logos by me for your sakes, sometimes Mind, sometimes Jesus, Sometimes Christ, Sometimes a door, sometimes a way, sometimes bread, sometimes seed, sometimes resurrection, sometimes Son, sometimes Father, sometimes Spirit, sometimes Life, sometimes Truth, Sometimes Pistis (Faith), sometimes Charis(grace); and so is it called for man´s sake.”

Narrative of Joseph of Arimathaea, That Begged the Lord’s Body; in Which Also He Brings in the Cases of the Two Robbers.

CHAP. I.–I am Joseph of Arimathaea, who begged from Pilate the body of the Lord Jesus for burial, and who for this cause was kept close in prison by the murderous and God-fighting Jews, who also, keeping to the law, have by Moses himself become partakers in tribulation and having provoked their Lawgiver to anger, and not knowing that He was God, crucified Him and made Him manifest to those that knew God. in those days in which they condemned the Son of God to be crucified, seven days before Christ suffered, two condemned robbers were sent from Jericho to the procurator Pilate; and their case was as follows:–

The first, his name Gestas, put travellers to death, murdering them with the sword, and others he exposed naked. And he hung up women by the heels, head down, and cut off their breasts, and drank the blood of infants limbs, never having known God, not obeying the laws, being violent from the beginning, and doing such deeds.

And the case of the other was as follows: He was called Demas, and was by birth a Galilaean, and kept an inn. He made attacks upon the rich, but was good to the poor–a thief like Tobit, for he buried the bodies of the poor. And he set his hand to robbing the multitude of the Jews, and stole the law itself in Jerusalem, and stripped naked the daughter of Caiaphas, who was priestess of the sanctuary, and took away from its place the mysterious deposit itself placed there by Solomon. Such were his doings.
And Jesus also was taken on the third day before the pass over, in the evening.