The birth-roll of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

and Jessai the father of king David. David was the father of Solomon by Uriah's wife,

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.

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

He replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry,

And all the crowds were amazed; they said, "Can this be the Son of David?"

And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon."

and when two blind men who were sitting beside the road heard Jesus was passing, they shouted, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"

The crowd checked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"

And the crowds who went in front of him and who followed behind shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name! Hosanna in high heaven!"

But when the high priests and scribes saw his wonderful deeds and saw the children who shouted in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant;

"Tell me," he said, "what you think about the Christ. Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

He said to them, "How is it then that David in the Spirit calls him Lord?

If David calls him Lord, how can he be his son?"