"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her is by the Holy Spirit; and she will bear a son, and you are to call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under law,

He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not dealing with us according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

not to contradict nor pilfer, but to exhibit praiseworthy trustworthiness in every thing, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

But when the kindness of God our Saviour, And his love toward men shined forth,

and we have beheld and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

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And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city if Nazareth, into Judea, to David's town of Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

Which

Now it has been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

"But why is this honor done me, that the mother of my Lord should come me?

"How is it," he asked them, "that they say that Christ is David's son?

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

So Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

In the morning he found his brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (a word which means Christ, the Anointed One).

"and we have learned to believe and we know that you are the holy one of God."

Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?

but these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

"Therefore let the whole House of Israel know assuredly that Gods has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you have crucified."

explaining and quoting passages to prove that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise again from the dead and that "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming unto you is the Messiah."

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Father's Child.

General references

"Because my eyes had seen the salvation,

And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

There began to be great joy in that city.