to a maiden betrothed to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. Her name was Mary.

"He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. "And the Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David,

"And has raised up a mighty Deliverer for us In the house of his servant David,

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city if Nazareth, into Judea, to David's town of Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

"For unto you born this day in there is born in David's town a Saviour, who is the Anointed Lord.

son of Melea, son of Menna, son of Mattatha, son of Nathan, son of David,

"Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he and his followers were hungry?

Then he shouted out, saying, "Jesus, son of David, take pity on me!"

Those who went ahead began to reprove him and to tell him to be still; but he kept clamorously shouting all the more, "Son of David, take pity on me!"

"How is it," he asked them, "that they say that Christ is David's son?

"for David himself say's in the book of the Psalms, "The Lord said to my Lord. Sit at my right hand,

"David therefore himself calls him 'Lord,' and how can he be his son?"