and asked, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star rise and we have come to do homage to him."

So he called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Christ was to be born.

"I tell you, among men born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has ever appeared. And yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of Heaven are greater than he.

The Son of Man is to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

Now the time came for Elizabeth's child to be born, and she gave birth to a son.

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

and she gave birth to her first-born son; and she wrapped him up, and laid him in a manger, for there was no room for them at the inn.

for today, in the town of David, a Savior for you has been born who is your Messiah and Lord.

in fulfilment of the requirement of the Law of the Lord, "Every first-born male shall be considered consecrated to the Lord,"

"I tell you, among men born of women there is none greater than John; and yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of God are greater than he.

As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed is the mother who bore you and nursed you!"

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, I existed before Abraham was born!"

His disciples asked him, "Master, for whose sin was this man born blind? For his own, or for that of his parents?"

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

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

It was never heard of in this world that anyone made a man born blind able to see.

They answered, "You were born in utter sin, and are you trying to teach us?" So they excluded him from the synagogue.

When a woman is in labor she is sorrowful, for her time has come; but when the child is born, she forgets her pain in her joy that a human being has been brought into the world.

Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "As you say, I am a king. It was for this that I was born and for this that I came to the world, to give testimony for truth. Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to my voice."

It was at this time that Moses was born. He was a wonderfully beautiful child, and for three months he was taken care of in his father's house.

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

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.

"I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

That is to say, it is not his physical descendants who are children of God, but his descendants born in fulfilment of the promise who are considered his true posterity.

For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them,

So your experience has confirmed the testimony that I bore to Christ,

For just as woman was made from man, man is born of woman, and both like everything else really come from God.

and finally he was seen by me also, as though I were born at the wrong time.

but when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law,

But the child of the slave-girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfilment of the promise.

Now we, brothers, are like Isaac, children born in fulfilment of the promise.

But just as then the child born in the ordinary course of nature persecuted the one born through the influence of the Spirit, so it is today.

He is a likeness of the unseen God, born before any creature,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born anew to a life of hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead,

for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God.

and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

His tail swept away one third of the stars of heaven and flung them down upon the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth to a child in order to devour her child as soon as it was born.

They have conquered him because of the Lamb's blood, and the message to which they bore testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.

So the first angel went and emptied his bowl upon the earth, and loathsome, painful sores attacked the men who bore the mark of the animal and worshiped its statue.

and ran through the middle of the principal street of the city. On both sides of the river grew the tree of life. It bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a different kind each month, and its leaves were a cure for the heathen.