The ancestry of Jesus Christ, who was descended from David, who was descended from Abraham.

So the whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen, and from David to the Babylonian Exile, fourteen, and from the Babylonian Exile to the Christ, fourteen.

She will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for it is he who is to save his people from their sins."

So when Joseph awoke from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had directed him, and took his wife to his home.

Now after the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of King Herod, astrologers from the east arrived at Jerusalem,

" 'And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, You are by no means least important among the leading places of Judah, For from you will come a leader Who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.' "

Then Herod secretly sent for the astrologers, and found out from them the exact time when the star appeared.

to fulfil what the Lord said by the prophet, "I called my son from Egypt."

Then Herod saw that he had been tricked by the astrologers, and he was very angry, and he sent and made away with all the boys in Bethlehem and in all that neighborhood who were two years old or under, for that was the tune he had learned from the astrologers by his inquiries.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming?

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be baptized by him.

and a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, my Beloved! This is my Chosen."

But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone is man to live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God!' "

From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent! for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming!"

Great crowds followed him about, from Galilee and the Ten Towns and Jerusalem and Judea and from the other side of the Jordan.

For I tell you, as long as heaven and earth endure, not one dotting of an i or crossing of a t will be dropped from the Law until it is all observed.

But your way of speaking must be 'Yes' or 'No.' Anything that goes beyond that comes from the evil one.

If anyone begs from you, give to him, and when anyone wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.

"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

And do not subject us to temptation, But save us from the evil one.'

Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!'

When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds of people followed him.

And I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven,

Now at some distance from them there was a great drove of pigs feeding.

And the whole town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they begged him to go away from their district.

Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and they will fast then.

But no one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old coat, for the patch will tear away from the coat, and make the hole worse than ever.

And Jesus turned and saw her, and he said, "Courage, my daughter! Your faith has cured you!" And from that time the woman was well.

As Jesus was passing along from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, "Take pity on us, you Son of David!"

And where no one will welcome you, or listen to you, leave that house or town and shake off its very dust from your feet.

What I tell you in the dark you must say in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, you must proclaim from the housetops.

When Jesus had finished giving his twelve disciples these instructions, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

But from the time of John the Baptist until now men have been taking the Kingdom of Heaven by storm and impetuously crowding into it.

At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children.

Let my yoke be put upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble-minded, and your hearts will find rest,

The queen of the south will rise with this age at the judgment and condemn it, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

For people who have will have more given to them, and will be plentifully supplied, and from people who have nothing even what they have will be taken away.

And the owner's slaves came to him and said, 'Was not the seed good that you sowed in your field, sir? So where did these weeds come from?'

That is what will happen at the close of the age. The angels will go out and remove the wicked from among the upright,

He said to them, "Then remember that every scribe who has become a disciple of the Kingdom of Heaven must be like a householder who can supply from his storeroom new things as well as old."

and he said to his attendants, "This man must be John the Baptist. He has risen from the dead, and that is why wonderful powers are working through him."

When Jesus heard it, he quietly retired by boat to a secluded place. And the crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the towns.

but the boat was by this time a long way from shore, struggling with the waves, for the wind was against them.

Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, and said to him,

" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they pollute a man.

But she said, "O yes, sir! For even dogs eat the scraps that fall from their masters' table!"

Then Jesus answered, "You have great faith! You shall have what you want." And her daughter was cured from that time.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came up and to test him asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

As he spoke a bright cloud overshadowed them and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved. He is my Chosen. Listen to him!"

And as they were going down the mountain, Jesus cautioned them, saying, "Do not tell anyone of the vision you have seen until the Son of Man is raised from the dead."

And Jesus reproved the demon and it came out of him, and from that moment the boy was cured.

He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. For I tell you, if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here over to there!' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

He said, "Yes." But when he went home, Jesus spoke of it first and said, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect duties and taxes? From their own people, or from aliens?"

He said, "From aliens." Jesus said to him, "Then their own people are exempt.

That is what my heavenly Father will do to you, if you do not each forgive your brothers from your hearts!"

For some are incapable of marriage from their birth, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

But Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not try to keep them from coming to me, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as they are."

And most of the crowd spread their coats in his way, and others cut branches from the trees and scattered them before him.

And the crowds that went in front of him and that followed him shouted, "God bless the Son of David! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name. God bless him from on high!"

and said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'You have drawn praise from the mouths of children and infants'?"

Where did John's baptism come from? Was it from heaven, or from men?" And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

But if we say, 'From men,' we have the people to fear, for they all consider John a prophet."

Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, " 'That stone which the builders rejected Has become the cornerstone; This came from the Lord, And seems marvelous to us'?

"That, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people that will produce its proper fruit.

And no one could make him any answer, and from that day no one ventured to ask him any more questions.

So you bear witness against yourselves that you are descended from the murderers of the prophets.

This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

for there will be greater misery then than there has ever been from the beginning of creation until now, or ever will be again.

"But immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the forces of the sky will shake.

And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet-call, and they will gather his chosen people from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

So take the thousand dollars away from him, and give it to the man who has the ten thousand,

for the man who has will have more given him, and will be plentifully supplied, and from the man who has nothing even what he has will be taken away.

and all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats,

Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world.

And from that time he watched for a good opportunity to hand him over to them.

"You must all drink from it, for this is my blood which ratifies the agreement, and is to be poured out for many people, for the forgiveness of their sins.

Just as he was speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the elders of the people.

and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

Now from noon there was darkness over the whole country until three o'clock.

And at once the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split,

There were several women there watching from a distance who had followed Jesus from Galilee to wait upon him,

In the evening a rich man named Joseph, from Arimathea, who had himself been a disciple of Jesus, came.

Give orders, therefore, to have the tomb closely guarded till the third day, so that his disciples cannot come and steal him, and then tell the people that he is risen from the dead, and that delusion be worse than the other was."

And there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the stone back and sat upon it.

Now go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead, and is going back to Galilee before you. You will see him there.' Now I have given you my message."

And they hurried away from the tomb frightened and yet overjoyed, and ran to tell the news to his disciples.

And all Judea and everybody in Jerusalem went out to him there, and accepted baptism from him in the Jordan River, acknowledging their sins.

It was in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

After John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news from God,

But he went off and began to talk so much about it, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in unfrequented places, and people came to him from every direction.

But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and when that day comes, they will fast.

No one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old coat; or if he does, the patch tears away, the new from the old, and makes the hole worse than ever.

So Jesus retired with his disciples to the seashore, and a great many people from Galilee followed him, and from Judea

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from the other side of the Jordan and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon a great many who had heard of the things he was doing came to him.

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

Then he began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around him so great that he got into a boat and sat in it, a little way from the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the water.

For people who have will have more given them, and from people who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.