And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:

yea, if thou criest after discernment and liftest up thy voice to understanding;

When thou criest, let them that are gathered by thee deliver thee! But a wind shall carry them all away, a breath shall take them; but he that putteth his trust in me shall inherit the land, and possess my holy mountain.

Why criest thou because of thy bruise? thy sorrow is incurable; for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins are manifold, I have done these things unto thee.

Book of the generation of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of Abraham.

and Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

All the generations, therefore, from Abraham to David were fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the carrying away of Babylon unto the Christ, fourteen generations.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was thus: His mother, Mary, that is, having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit.

and, assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born.

But John, having heard in the prison the works of the Christ, sent by his disciples,

And Simon Peter answering said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Then he enjoined on his disciples that they should say to no man that he was the Christ.

And they send out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one, for thou regardest not men's person;

saying, What think ye concerning the Christ? whose son is he? They say to him, David's.

Neither be called instructors, for one is your instructor, the Christ.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they shall mislead many.

Then if any one say to you, Behold, here is the Christ, or here, believe it not.

But Jesus was silent. And the high priest answering said to him, I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us if thou art the Christ the Son of God.

saying, Prophesy to us, Christ, Who is it who struck thee?

They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom will ye that I release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?

Pilate says to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ? They all say, Let him be crucified.

Beginning of the glad tidings of Jesus Christ, Son of God;

And he asked them, But ye, who do ye say that I am? And Peter answering says to him, Thou art the Christ.

For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

And they come and say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest not for any one; for thou regardest not men's person, but teachest the way of God with truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?

And Jesus answering said as he was teaching in the temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is son of David?

And then if any one say to you, Lo, here is the Christ, or Lo, there, believe it not.

But he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and says to him, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

Let the Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and may believe. And they that were crucified with him reproached him.

for to-day a Saviour has been born to you in David's city, who is Christ the Lord.

And it was divinely communicated to him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death before he should see the Lord's Christ.

But as the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John whether he might be the Christ,

and demons also went out from many, crying out and saying, Thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

And he said to them, But ye, who do ye say that I am? And Peter answering said, The Christ of God.

And he said to them, How do they say that the Christ is David's son,

If thou art the Christ, tell us. And he said to them, If I tell you, ye will not at all believe;

And they began to accuse him, saying, We have found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

And the people stood beholding, and the rulers also with them sneered, saying, He has saved others; let him save himself if this is the Christ, the chosen one of God.

Now one of the malefactors who had been hanged spoke insultingly to him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.

Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?

and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third day;

For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ.

And he acknowledged and denied not, and acknowledged, I am not the Christ.

And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messias (which being interpreted is Christ).

Ye yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him.

The woman says to him, I know that Messias is coming, who is called Christ; when he comes he will tell us all things.

Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is not he the Christ?

and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ?

But as to this man we know whence he is. Now as to the Christ, when he comes, no one knows whence he is.

But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this man has done?

Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, Does then the Christ come out of Galilee?

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the village of Bethlehem, where David was?

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one confessed him to be the Christ, he should be excommunicated from the synagogue.

The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, Until when dost thou hold our soul in suspense? If thou art the Christ, say so to us openly.

She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.

The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides for ever; and how sayest thou that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this, the Son of man?

And this is the eternal life, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

but these are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life in his name.

he, seeing it before, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither has he been left in hades nor his flesh seen corruption.

Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

And Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptised, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But Peter said, Silver and gold I have not; but what I have, this give I to thee: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean rise up and walk.

but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

and he may send Jesus Christ, who was foreordained for you,

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by him this man stands here before you sound in body.

The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.

And every day, in the temple and in the houses, they ceased not teaching and announcing the glad tidings that Jesus was the Christ.

And Philip, going down to a city of Samaria, preached the Christ to them;

But when they believed Philip announcing the glad tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised, both men and women.

But Saul increased the more in power, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus, the Christ, heals thee: rise up, and make thy couch for thyself. And straightway he rose up.

The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, (he is Lord of all things,)

If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was I to be able to forbid God?

men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And this she did many days. And Paul, being distressed, turned, and said to the spirit, I enjoin thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour.

opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom I announce to you.

And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in respect of the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

For he with great force convinced the Jews publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

And after certain days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

namely, whether Christ should suffer; whether he first, through resurrection of the dead, should announce light both to the people and to the nations.

preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom unhinderedly.

Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated to God's glad tidings,

marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of the dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;

among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my glad tidings, by Jesus Christ.

righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all,and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.

but God commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.

But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.

For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)

in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?