After this his wife, Elizabeth, expecting to become a mother, lived in seclusion for five months.
And, as soon as his term of service was finished, he returned home.
"This is what the Lord has done for me," she said, "now that he has deigned to take away the reproach under which I have been living."
In the reign of Herod, King of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the Division called after Abijah. His wife, whose name was Elizabeth, was also a descendant of Aaron.
The first account which I drew up, Theophilus, dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from the very first,