Parallel Bible results for "luke 1:1-11"

Luke 1:1-11

Common English Bible CEB

1 Many people have already applied themselves to the task of compiling an account of the events that have been fulfilled among us.

2 They used what the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed down to us.

3 Now, after having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, I have also decided to write a carefully ordered account for you, most honorable Theophilus.

4 I want you to have confidence in the soundness of the instruction you have received.

5 During the rule of King Herod of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah. His wife Elizabeth was a descendant of Aaron.

6 They were both righteous before God, blameless in their observance of all the Lord's commandments and regulations.

7 They had no children because Elizabeth was unable to become pregnant and they both were very old.

8 One day Zechariah was serving as a priest before God because his priestly division was on duty.

9 Following the customs of priestly service, he was chosen by lottery to go into the Lord's sanctuary and burn incense.

10 All the people who gathered to worship were praying outside during this hour of incense offering.

11 An angel from the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense.

New International Version NIV

1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

5 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron.

6 Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly.

7 But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.

8 Once when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,

9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

10 And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.

11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.