Coverdale(i)
3 I thought it good (after that I had diligently searched out all from the begynnynge) to wryte the same orderly vnto the (good Theophilus)
4 that thou mightest knowe the certete of ye wordes, wherof thou art infourmed.
5 In the tyme of Herode kynge of Iewry, there was a prest named Zachary of the course of Abia: and his wife of the doughters of Aaron, & hir name Elizabeth.
6 They were both righteous before God, and walked in all the commaundementes and statutes of the LORDE vnreproueably.
7 And they had no childe, for Elizabeth was baren, and they were both well stricken in age.
8 And it came to passe as he executed the prestes office before God whan his course came
9 (acordinge to the custome of the presthode) it fell to his lott to burne incense.
10 And he wente in to the temple of the LORDE, and the whole multitude of the people was without in prayer, whyle the incense was aburnynge.
11 And the angell of the LORDE appeared vnto him, and stode on the right syde of the altare of incese.
12 And whan Zachary sawe him, he was abasshed, & there came a feare vpon him.
13 But the angell sayde vnto him: Feare not Zachary, for thy prayer is herde. And yi wife Elizabeth shal beare the a sonne, whose name thou shalt call Ihon,
14 & thou shalt haue ioye and gladnesse: and many shal reioyce at his byrth,
15 for he shal be greate before the LORDE. Wyne and stronge drynke shal he not drynke. And he shalbe fylled wt the holy goost, euen in his mothers wombe.
16 And many of the children of Israel shal he turne vnto the LORDE their God.
17 And he shal go before him in the sprete and power of Elias, to turne the hertes of ye fathers vnto the children, and the vnfaithfull vnto the wyssdome of the righteous, to make the people ready for the LORDE.