But while he was thinking of these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit,

and she shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.

And when Joseph awoke from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took his wife,

and knew her not till she bore a son, and he called his name Jesus.

and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ is born.

And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and fled into Egypt,

Then Herod seeing that he was despised by the Magi, was exceedingly angry, and sent and destroyed all the children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the precise time which he had learned of the Magi.

And he arose and took the young child and his mother, and went into the land of Israel.

But hearing that Archelaus reigned over Judea in the place of Herod his father, he was afraid to go there; but being divinely instructed in a dream, he departed into the parts of Galilee,

and went and lived in a city called Nazareth, that the word spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, He shall be called a Nazoraean.

For this is he that was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying; A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come for the baptism, he said to them; Offspring of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

I indeed baptize you with water to a change of mind; but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not fit to bear; he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and fire;

whose winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean his threshing floor, and gather his wheat into the storehouse; but the chaff he will burn with an inextinguishable fire.

But, he refused him, saying, I have need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?

But Jesus answered and said to him, Suffer me now; for thus, it becomes us to complete all righteousness. Then he suffered him;

and Jesus being baptized went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descend like a dove and come upon him.

And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry.

And he answered and said; It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God.

and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning you, and they shall take you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.

Again the devil took him away on a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory,

AND when he heard that John was delivered up, he departed to Galilee;

and leaving Nazareth he came and lived at Capernaum on the lake, in the bounds of Zebulon and Naphtali,

And walking by the lake of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.

And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishermen of men.

And going forward thence, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

And he went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.

And his fame went out into all Syria; and they brought him all that were ill, afflicted with various diseases and torments, and demoniacs, and lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them;

AND seeing the multitudes, he went on the mountain and sat down; and his disciples came to him.

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying;

Whoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and rains on the just and unjust.

but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light which is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he will adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.

And why are you anxious concerning clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they perform no hard labor, neither do they spin;

And if God so clothes the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, men of little faith?

or how will you say to your brother, Let me cast out the speck from your eye, and behold a beam in your own eye?

For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.

or if he asks a fish, will give him a serpent?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him.

Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my Father in heaven.

for he taught them as having authority, and not as their scribes.

AND when he went down from the mountain great multitudes followed him;

And stretching out his hand, he touched him, saying, I will; be cleansed; and his leprosy was immediately cleansed.

And when he entered into Capernaum a centurion came to him, beseeching him,

He said to him, I will come and cure him.

For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this man, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose and waited on them.

And when it was evening they brought him many demoniacs, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and cured all that were sick,

that the word might be fulfilled spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying; He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.

And he entered into a ship, and his disciples followed him.

And behold there was a great tempest on the lake, so that the ship was covered with the waves; but he was asleep.

And he said to them, Why are you afraid, men of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the lake, and there was a great calm.

And when he had come to the other side, into the country of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs met him, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no man could pass that way.

And he said to them, Go. And going out, they went away into the herd of swine, and, behold, the whole herd rushed down a precipice into the lake, and died in the waters;

And entering a ship, he crossed over, and came to his own city;

But that you may know that the Son of man has power on the earth to forgive sins, then he said to the paralytic, Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.

And he arose and departed to his house.

And Jesus departing thence saw a man sitting at the custom-house, called Matthew; and he said to him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

And he was reclining in the house, and behold, many publicans and sinners came and reclined with Jesus and his disciples.

And hearing it he said, The well need not a physician, but the sick.

While he was saying these words to them, behold a ruler came and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is now dead, but come and put your hand on her and she shall live.

But when the multitude were removed he went in and took her hand, and the girl arose.

And when he had gone into the house the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord.

Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it to you;

But the Pharisees said, He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.

And seeing the multitudes he had compassion on them because they were faint and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Then he said to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers few.

AND calling his twelve disciples, he gave them power over impure spirits to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every infirmity.

But when they have delivered you up be not anxious how you shall speak, or what you shall say, for it shall be given you in that hour what to say;

and you shall be hated by all men for my sake. But he that endures to the end shall be saved.

It is sufficient for the disciple to be as his teacher, and the servant as his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they call the members of his family by that name.

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

and he that does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

He that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.

He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me.

He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward, and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.

And whoever shall give one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, I tell you truly, he shall by no means lose his reward.

And when Jesus had finished his charge to his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and preach in their cities.

said to him, Are you he that was coming, or look we for another?

and blessed is he that is not offended with me.

For this is he of whom it is written; Behold, I send my messenger before your face, to prepare your way before you.

I tell you truly, there has not arisen among those born of woman a greater than John the Baptist; but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

He that has ears, let him hear.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon;

Then he began to rebuke those cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they changed not their minds.

All things are given me by my Father; and no one knows the Son but the Father; and no one knows the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

But he said to them, Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him?

how he entered into the house of God and eat the show bread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but only for the priests?

And departing thence he went into their synagogue,

And he said to them, What man is there of you having one sheep, who if this falls into a pit on the sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?

How much then is a man better than a sheep! So that it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.

Then he said to the man, Stretch out your hand; and he stretched it out, and it was restored as sound as the other;

But Jesus knowing it departed thence, and great multitudes followed him; and he cured them all,

Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my spirit on him, and he shall declare judgment to the nations.

He shall not strive nor cry aloud, nor shall any one hear his voice in the streets.

A bruised reed shall he not break, and a smoking flax shall be not extinguish, till he sends forth judgment to victory.

THEN a blind and dumb demoniac was brought to him, and he cured him, so that the blind and dumb spoke and saw.

But knowing their thoughts, he said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed; and no city or house divided against itself can stand.

If Satan casts out Satan he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?