Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born that Jesus, that is called Christ.

When Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Jewry in the time of Herod the king, Behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem,

saying, "Where is he that is born King of the Jews? We have seen his star in the East and are come to worship him."

And he gathered all the chief Priests and Scribes of the people, and asked of them where Christ should be born.

There are chaste, which were so born out of their mother's belly. And there are chaste, which be made chaste of men. And there be chaste, which have made themselves chaste for the kingdom of heavens' sake. He that can take it, let him take it."

The son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the son of man shall be betrayed. It had been good for that man, if he had never been born."