Now the generation of Jesus Christ was attended with these circumstances: His mother Mary being betrothed to Joseph, before they cohabited together, she was found with child from the Holy Spirit.

Then Joseph her husband being a just man, and not willing to expose her publicly, designed to put her away privately.

"A virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel," which is being interpreted, God with us.

But hearing that Archelaus reigned in Judea in the stead of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither. And being divinely warned in a dream, he retired into the country of Galilee,

Ye broods of vipers, how can ye speak good things, yourselves being wicked? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

And she, being previously urged on by her mother, said, Give me here, in a spacious dish, the head of John the Baptist.

The Pharisees being then assembled, Jesus put a question to them,

and being afraid, I went and hid thy talent in the ground: see here, thou hast thine own.

The Son of man indeed is departing, as it is written of him: but wo to that man, by whom the Son of man is betrayed! well had it been for that man if he had never had a being.

Being therefore gathered around him, Pilate said to them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus called Messiah?

And being assembled with the elders, and having held a council, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,