that today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born for you in the city of David.

And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit [that he would] not see death before he would see the Lord's Christ.

And [while] the people were waiting expectantly and all were pondering in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he might be the Christ,

And demons also were coming out of many, crying out and saying, "You are the Son of God!" And he rebuked [them] [and] did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

And he said to them, "But who do you say [that] I am?" And Peter answered [and] said, "The Christ of God."

But he said to them, "In what sense do they say [that] the Christ is David's son?

saying, "If you are the Christ, tell us!" But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will never believe,

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding [us] to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying [he] himself is Christ, a king!"

And the people stood there watching, but the rulers also ridiculed [him], saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if this [man] is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

And one of the criminals who were hanged there reviled him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself--and us!"

Was it not necessary [that] the Christ suffer these [things] and enter into his glory?"

and said to them, "Thus it is written [that] the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,