For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.

And he had knowledge, through the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death till he had seen the Lord's Christ.

And while the people were waiting, and all men were questioning in their hearts about John, if he was the Christ or not,

And evil spirits came out of a number of them, crying out and saying, You are the Son of God. But he gave them sharp orders not to say a word, because they had knowledge that he was the Christ.

And he said, But who do you say that I am? And Peter, answering, said, The Christ of God.

And he said to them, Why do they say that the Christ is the son of David?

If you are the Christ, say so. But he said, If I say so you will not have belief;

And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.

And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.

Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?

And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;