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

"Where is the new-born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and are come to worship him."

So when he had gathered together all the chief priests and rabbis of the people, he began to inquire of them where the Christ was to be born.

that the word spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, He took upon himself our weaknesses, and bore the burden of our diseases.

"In solemn truth I tell you that there has not arisen among those born of women a greater than John the Baptist; yet one of the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

But some fell on good soil, and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

"The Son of man is indeed to go as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were good for that man if he had never been born."