For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God."

He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David's son?

"If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won't believe,

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!"

Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?"

He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,