and the messenger said unto him, 'Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John,

and many of the sons of Israel he shall turn to the Lord their God,

and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus;

he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,

And the messenger answering said to her, 'The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

And to Elisabeth was the time fulfilled for her bringing forth, and she bare a son,

and she brought forth her son -- the first-born, and wrapped him up, and laid him down in the manger, because there was not for them a place in the guest-chamber.

Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests -- there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness,

and the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily appearance, as if a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, saying, 'Thou art My Son -- the Beloved, in thee I did delight.'

And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, son of Joseph,

the son of Eli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna, the son of Joseph,

the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Naum, the son of Esli,

the son of Naggai, the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semei, the son of Joseph, the son of Juda,

the son of Joanna, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,

the son of Neri, the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,

the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat,

the son of Levi, the son of Simeon, the son of Juda, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,

the son of Melea, the son of Mainan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan,

the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Booz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Esrom, the son of Pharez,

the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber,

the son of Salah, the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel,

the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

and the Devil said to him, 'If Son thou art of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.'

And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, 'If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,

and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, 'Is not this the son of Joseph?'

And demons also were coming forth from many, crying out and saying -- 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of God;' and rebuking, he did not suffer them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

and in like manner also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon; and Jesus said unto Simon, 'Fear not, henceforth thou shalt be catching men;'

And that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority upon the earth to forgive sins -- (he said to the one struck with palsy) -- I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy little couch, be going on to thy house.'

And he said unto them, 'Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber -- in the bridegroom being with them -- to fast?

and he said to them, -- 'The Son of Man is lord also of the sabbath.'

Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --

'But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

and as he came nigh to the gate of the city, then, lo, one dead was being carried forth, an only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a great multitude of the city was with her.

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

and having seen Jesus, and having cried out, he fell before him, and with a loud voice, said, 'What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, mayest thou not afflict me!'

saying -- 'It behoveth the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and the third day to be raised.'

'For whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, of this one shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he may come in his glory, and the Father's, and the holy messengers';

and a voice came out of the cloud saying, 'This is My Son -- the Beloved; hear ye him;'

and lo, a man from the multitude cried out, saying, 'Teacher, I beseech thee, look upon my son, because he is my only begotten;

And Jesus answering said, 'O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you, and suffer you? bring near hither thy son;'

'Lay ye to your ears these words, for the Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men.'

for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save;' and they went on to another village.

and Jesus said to him, 'The foxes have holes, and the fowls of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may recline the head.'

and if indeed there may be there the son of peace, rest on it shall your peace; and if not so, upon you it shall turn back.

All things were delivered up to me by my Father, and no one doth know who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him.'

And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

But if I by Beelzeboul cast forth the demons -- your sons, by whom do they cast forth? because of this your judges they shall be;

for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

And I say to you, Every one -- whoever may confess with me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess with him before the messengers of God,

and every one whoever shall say a word to the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven to him, but to him who to the Holy Spirit did speak evil, it shall not be forgiven.

and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

And he said, 'A certain man had two sons,

'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

and the son said to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

'And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

'And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.

And he said unto his disciples, 'Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold it;

for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one part under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;

'And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;

'According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'

And having taken the twelve aside, he said unto them, 'Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be completed -- that have been written through the prophets -- to the Son of Man,

and he cried out, saying, 'Jesus, Son of David, deal kindly with me;'

and those going before were rebuking him, that he might be silent, but he was much more crying out, 'Son of David, deal kindly with me.'

And Jesus said unto him -- 'To-day salvation did come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son -- the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence;

And Jesus answering said to them, 'The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,

for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

And he said unto them, 'How do they say the Christ to be son of David,

David, then, doth call him lord, and how is he his son?'

'And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and much glory;

watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

and indeed the Son of Man doth go according to what hath been determined; but woe to that man through whom he is being delivered up.'

and Jesus said to him, 'Judas, with a kiss the Son of Man dost thou deliver up?'

henceforth, there shall be the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power of God.'

And they all said, 'Thou, then, art the Son of God?' and he said unto them, 'Ye say it, because I am;'

saying -- It behoveth the Son of Man to be delivered up to the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.'