Thus all the generations from Abraham to David number fourteen, from David to the Babylonian captivity fourteen, and from the Babylonian captivity to Christ fourteen.

but after he had planned this, there appeared an angel of the Lord to him in a dream saying, "Joseph, son of David, fear not to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her comes from the holy Spirit.

She will bear a son, and you will call him 'Jesus,' for he will save his people from their sins."

So on waking from sleep Joseph did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him; he took his wife home,

Now when Jesus was born at Bethlehem, belonging to Judaea, in the days of king Herod, magicians from the East arrived at Jerusalem,

And you Bethlehem, in Judah's land, You are not least among the rulers of Judah: For a ruler will come from you, Who will shepherd Israel my people."

Then Herod summoned the magicians in secret and ascertained from them the time of the star's appearance.

where he stayed until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what the Lord had said by the prophet: I called my Son from Egypt.

Then Herod saw the magicians had trifled with him, and he was furiously angry; he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the neighbourhood who were two years old or under, calculating by the time he had ascertained from the magicians.

But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

instead of presuming to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Then Jesus came on the scene from Galilee, to get baptized by John at the Jordan.

And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight."

He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."

From that day Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, the Reign of heaven is near."

Then going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedaeus and his brother John, mending their nets in the boat beside their father Zebedaeus. He called them,

The fame of him spread all through the surrounding country, and people brought him all their sick, those who suffered from all manner of disease and pain, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics; he healed them all.

And he was followed by great crowds from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from across the Jordan.

(I tell you truly, till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until it is all in force.

Let what you say be simply 'yes' or 'no'; whatever exceeds that springs from evil.

give to the man who begs from you, and turn not away from him who wants to borrow.

Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No,

When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.'

How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take out the splinter from your eye,' when there lies the plank in your own eye?

You will know them by their fruit; do men gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? No,

Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from my presence, you workers of iniquity.'

When he came down from the hill, he was followed by large crowds.

Many, I tell you, will come from east and west and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Realm of heaven,

As Jesus passed along from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me"; and he rose and followed him.

Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding mourn so long as the bride groom is beside them? A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast.

No one sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, for the patch breaks away from it, and the tear is made worse:

Then Jesus turned round, and when he saw her he said, "Courage, my daughter, your faith has made you well." And the woman was well from that hour.

As Jesus passed along from there, he was followed by two blind men who shrieked, "Son of David, have pity on us!"

Whoever will not receive you or listen to your message, leave that house or town and shake off the very dust from your feet.

After finishing these instructions to his twelve disciples, Jesus removed from there to teach and preach among their towns.

From the days of John the Baptist till now the Realm of heaven suffers violence, and the violent press into it.

At that time Jesus spoke and said, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simpleminded;

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

Then he moved on from there and went into their synagogue.

but as Jesus knew of it he retired from the spot. Many followed him, and he healed them all,

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we would like to have some Sign from you."

The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and here is One greater than Solomon.

For he who has, to him shall more be given and richly given, but whoever has not, from him shall be taken even what he has.

So will it be at the end of the world. The angels will go out and separate the evil from among the just

So he said to them, "Well then, every scribe who has become a disciple of the Realm of heaven is like a householder who produces what is new and what is old from his stores."

Now when Jesus had finished these parables he set out from there,

And he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead. That is why miraculous powers are working through him."

When Jesus heard it he withdrew by boat to a desert place in private; but the crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the towns.

The men who ate numbered about five thousand, apart from the women and children.

Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me:

while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart ??and that is what defiles a man.

Going away from there Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

"No, sir," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."

At that Jesus replied, "O woman, you have great faith; your prayer is granted as you wish." And from that hour her daughter was cured.

Then Jesus removed from that country and went along the sea of Galilee; he went up the hillside and sat there.

The men who ate numbered four thousand, apart from the children and the women.

Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.

From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to leave for Jerusalem and endure great suffering at the hands of the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed and raised on the third day.

He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."

As they went down the hill Jesus ordered them, "Tell this vision to nobody until the Son of man is raised from the dead."

So Jesus checked the daemon and it came out of him, and from that hour the boy was healed.

He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you truly, if you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you could say to this hill, 'Move from here to there,' and remove it would; nothing would be impossible for you."

He said, "Yes." But when he went indoors Jesus spoke first; "Tell me, Simon," he said, "from whom do earthly kings collect customs or taxes? Is it from their own people or from aliens?"

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

My heavenly Father will do the same to you unless you each forgive your brother from the heart."

When Jesus finished saying this he moved from Galilee and went to the territory of Judaea that lies across the Jordan.

He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning

He said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, on account of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not so from the beginning.

There are eunuchs who have been eunuchs from their birth, there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Realm of heaven. Let anyone practice it for whom it is practicable."

but Jesus said to them, "Let the children alone, do not stop them from coming to me: the Realm of heaven belongs to such as these."

and the greater part of the crowd spread their clothes on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them on the road.

and the crowds replied, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazaret in Galilee!"

they said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Yes," said Jesus, "have you never read Thou hast brought praise to perfection from the mouth of babes and sucklings?"

and noticing a fig tree by the roadside he went up to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you after this!" And instantly the fig tree withered up.

Where did the baptism of John come from? From heaven or from men?" Now they argued to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

And if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet."

I tell you therefore that the Realm of God will be taken from you and given to a nation that bears the fruits of the Realm.

No one could make any answer to him, and from that day no one ventured to put another question to him.

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

it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

for there will be sore misery then, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now ??no and never shall be.

For like lightning that shoots from east to west, so will be the arrival of the Son of man.

Immediately after the misery of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not yield her light, the stars will drop from heaven and the orbs of the heavens will be shaken.

He will despatch his angels with a loud trumpet call to muster his elect from the four winds, from the verge of heaven to the verge of earth.

Take therefore the two hundred and fifty pounds away from him, give it to the servant who had the twelve hundred.

For to everyone who has shall more be given and richly given; but from him who has nothing, even what he has shall be taken.

and all nations will be gathered in front of him; he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,

Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

From that moment he sought a good opportunity to betray him.

While he was still speaking, up came Judas, one of the twelve, accompanied by a large mob with swords and cudgels who had come from the high priests and the elders of the people.

Then the word spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: and I took the thirty silver pieces, the price of him who had been priced, whom they had priced and expelled from the sons of Israel;

and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!"

"He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him!

Now from twelve o'clock to three o'clock darkness covered all the land,

And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were split,

There were also a number of women there looking on from a distance, women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and waited on him,

Now when evening came, a rich man from Arimathaea, called Joseph, who had become a disciple of Jesus,