and Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary by whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

and did not know her till she brought forth her son -- the first-born, and he called his name Jesus.

Now [after] Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,

saying, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star at its rising and have come to worship him."

and [after] calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired from them where the Christ was to be born.

“Blessed [joyful, nourished by God’s goodness] are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness [those who actively seek right standing with God], for they will be [completely] satisfied.

“Blessed [comforted by inner peace and God’s love] are those who are persecuted for doing that which is morally right, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven [both now and forever].

so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities and bore our diseases.

Truly I say to you, among [those] born of women there has not arisen [one] greater than John the Baptist. But the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

But some fell on good ground, and bore fruit; some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty-fold.

but when the blade was sprung up, and bore grain, the tares appeared too.

For there are eunuchs who were born as such from [their] mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves [eunuchs] for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept [this], let him accept [it]."

these last have work'd but an hour, and you put them upon the level with us, who have born the whole fatigue and heat of the day.

The Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if that man had not been born."

some other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked it, so it bore no crop;

And other [seed] fell on the good soil, and produced grain, coming up and increasing, and it bore [a crop]--one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred [times as much].

So Herodias bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she couldn't do it

She was a heathen who spoke Greek and had been born in Syro-Phenicia. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

For the Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! [It would be] better for him if that man had not been born."

For many bore false witness against him, and their testimony did not agree.

And certain persons rose up and bore false witness against him, saying,

And you will have joy and happiness and many people will rejoice when he is born.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and he will not drink any wine or intoxicating drinks [Note: This restriction suggests that John may have taken the special vow of consecration making him a "Nazarite"]. And he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from the time he is born.

And the angel answered [and] said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the one to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.

So, Mary stayed with [her relative] Elizabeth for about three months [i.e., until about the time John was born. See 1:26-31], and then returned to her home.

So it was time for Elizabeth to bear a child, and she bore a son.

And it happened on the eighth day [i.e., since the baby was born] that they came to circumcise the child [i.e., to perform the Jewish rite of identity, signifying the responsibility to observe the law of Moses]. And they [i.e., probably the neighbors and/or relatives of Elizabeth and Zacharias] suggested that they name him Zacharias, after his father.

All who heard of it bore it in mind; they said, "Whatever will this child become?" For the hand of the Lord was indeed with him.

He has provided a horn of salvation [i.e., His saving strength] for us from a descendant of His servant King David [i.e., Jesus, born of Mary]

While they were there, the time came for her child to be born,

and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

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

"Every first born male shall be counted consecrated to the Lord,"

And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

And when He drew nigh unto the gate of the city, behold, a dead man, an only born son to his mother, and she a widow, was indeed being carried out: and a great multitude of the city was along with her.

And he came and touched the bier: And they that bore him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, Arise.

I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there is none greater than John: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

and other fell into the good ground, and having sprung up bore fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

And, behold, a man from the crowd cried out, saying, Teacher, I implore thee look upon my son: for he is my only born.

Now it happened that as he said these [things], a certain woman from the crowd raised [her] voice [and] said to him, "Blessed [is] the womb that bore you, and [the] breasts [at] which you nursed!"

Then he said, "Woe be to you also ye lawyers: for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be born, and ye yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The estate of a certain rich man bore plentifully:

He said therefore, A certain high-born man went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.

But they were instant with the most clamorous vociferations, soliciting that he might be crucified. And their clamours, and those of the chief priests, bore him down.

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed!'

For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nourished infants.

Now there was a man of the name of Joseph, who was a member of the Council, and who bore a good and upright character.

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word was flesh, and dwelt with us, (and we beheld his glory, as the glory of the only born of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John bore witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

No one has ever seen God [i.e., His full splendor], but God, the only conceived [and eventually born Son], who is at the Father's side, has shown us who He is.

And John bore witness, saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and it abode upon him.

And I saw and bore testimony, that this is the Son of God.

And he saith to them, Draw out now, and bear to the governor of the feast. And they bore it.

Jesus answered him, I declare unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Nicodemus replied, how can a man be born when he is old? can he enter into his mother, and be born a second time?

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God!

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

be not surprized that I said to thee, you must be born again.

The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, we speak only of what we [absolutely] know and testify about what we have [actually] seen [as eyewitnesses]; and [still] you [reject our evidence and] do not accept our testimony.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.

He believing in him is not judged: and he not believing has been already judged, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.

who thereupon went to John, and said, master, he that was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you bore testimony, he himself does now baptize likewise, and the people flock to him.

But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.

for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet has no honour in his own country.

you yourselves sent to John, and he bore witness to the truth.

and the father who sent me, hath himself born witness of me. his voice you have never heard, nor ever seen his appearance,

After these things happened Jesus went across to the east side of Lake Galilee, also called Lake Tiberias. [Note: This lake also bore a name honoring the Roman Emperor Tiberias].

hath not the scripture said, that the Messiah is to rise out of the family of David, and out of Bethlehem, the village where David was born?

Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was born, I am.

As Jesus passed by, he saw a man that was born blind.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?

"Neither the man nor the parents," replied Jesus; "but he was born blind that the work of God should be made plain in him.

Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight

and asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How then doth he now see?

His parents answered and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner."

Since the world began it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind.

They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put in it.

The crowd therefore that was with him bore witness because he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from among the dead.

'The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

Pilate, therefore, said to him, 'Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, 'Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'

There was set there a vessel full of vinegar; so, putting a sponge full of vinegar on hyssop, they bore it to His mouth.

And he who saw bore record, and his record is true. And he knows that he speaks true, so that you might believe.

and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

And with great power bore the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, when interpreted, Son of consolation,) a Levite, born in Cyprus,

a field being his, selling it, he bore the proceeds and placed them at the apostles' feet.

at length he gave him the covenant of circumcision: accordingly Abraham circumcised his son Isaac eight days after he was born, Isaac was father of Jacob, who was father of the twelve patriarchs.

At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home three months,

At those words Moses fled, and went and lived for a time in Midian, and two sons were born to him there.

And about the time of forty years He tenderly bore them in the wilderness.

Then He deposed him and raised up for them David to be king, to whom He bore this testimony, 'I have found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all that my will requires.'

that God has completely fulfilled this promise to our children by raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son; today I have begotten (fathered) You.’

They spent some time there, speaking fearlessly and relying upon the Lord, who bore witness to his gracious message by letting signs and wonders be done by them.

Now at Lystra there was a man, who could not stand upon his feet, he was born a cripple, and had never walked about.

And the heart-knowing God bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit as to us also,