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Luke 1

Luke writes an orderly account for Theophilus. The angel Gabriel announces the birth of John to the priest Zechariah in the temple, and then the birth of Jesus to Mary in Nazareth. Mary visits Elizabeth and sings the Magnificat; John is born and Zechariah prophesies.

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    First-century Nazareth lay beneath the old centre of the modern city, on the slope around the Basilica of the Annunciation.

    The name continues at the same place, and excavations there have found houses, farming installations and tombs from the Roman period.

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