Luke 1:1-5
Luke explains about his report
1 Many people have written about the things that have happened in our country. 2 Some people were present when these things started to happen. They saw everything that happened and they told us about it. They are the people who wrote down the good news for us. 3 I have checked the facts about what really happened. So now, I know about all the things that happened from the beginning. I am writing to make the facts clear to you, my great friend Theophilus. 4 People have already taught you about these things. Now you can be sure that they are true.
An angel speaks about the birth of John the Baptist
5 There was a man whose name was Zechariah. He lived when Herod was king of Judea. Zechariah was a priest and he belonged to a group of priests from the family of Abijah. He had a wife called Elizabeth. She also was a descendant of Aaron.
1:5This king of Judea was called Herod the Great.
1:5A priest was a special servant of God who worked at the temple in Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the capital city of Israel. The temple of God was in Jerusalem. There were 24 groups of priests. One group at a time worked in the temple. Zechariah was in the group of Abijah.
