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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.

Glory to your words.

Chapter 1, verses 1 through 4, verse 4 and verses 14 through 21.

Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us,

just as those who are eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word have handed them down to us,

I too have decided, after investigating everything accurately anew, to write it down in an orderly sequence for you, most excellent theophilus, so that you may realize the certainty

of the teachings you have received. Jesus returned to Galilee, in the power of the spirit,

and news of him spread throughout

the whole region.

He taught in their synagogues, and was praised by all.

He came to Nazareth where he had grown up and went according to his custom into the

synagogue on the Sabbath Day.

He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.

He enrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was

written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, and to let

the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord. Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,

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