and Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom is born Jesus, who is called Christ.

NOW when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, lo! Magians from the East came to Jerusalem,

saying, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the East, and are come to pay him homage.

And assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he enquired of them, where the Messiah should be born.

that it might be fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet, "Himself he took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."

Verily I say unto you, There hath not arisen, from those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

Therefore Herodias bore him a rooted resentment, and would have slain him; yet could not:

The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him; but wo to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been desirable for that man if he had never been born.

For many bore false witness against him, and their attestations did not correspond.

And certain persons rising up, bore false witness against him, saying,

And the angel answering said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee; wherefore also the Holy One that shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God.

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

Because this day there is born for you a Saviour, which is Messiah, the Lord, in the city of David.

For I tell you, of those born from woman, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of heaven, is greater than he.

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

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.

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

John bore witness concerning him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I said, He that is coming after me, is before me: because before me he was.

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

Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

Jesus replied, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man 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.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the sound of it, but knowest not from whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth: just so is every one who is born of the Spirit.

Ye sent to John, and he bore testimony to the truth.

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

And his disciples inquired of him, saying, Rabbi, who was in fault, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?

And they questioned them, saying, Is this your son, of whom ye say, that he was born blind? how then doth he now see?

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

From the creation of the world hath it never been heard, that any man opened the eyes of one born blind.

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

Then the multitude that was with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bore their testimony.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when the little son is born, she no more remembers the anguish, for joy that a man is brought into the world.

Then said Pilate unto him. Art thou not a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. For this end I was born, and for this I came into the world, that I should be a witness for the truth. Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice.

And he that saw it bore witness, and we know that his testimony is true: and he himself is conscious that he speaketh what is true, that ye might believe.

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

At which time Moses was born, and was endued with singular beauty from God, who was brought up three months in the house of his father:

And about the space of forty years he bore with their behaviour in the wilderness.

A long space therefore continued they there speaking boldly in the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, and granted signs and miracles to be wrought by their hands.

And God, who is the discerner of the heart, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as to us;

I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed accurately in the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day:

(though the children were not yet born, nor had done any thing good or evil, that according to the election of God the purpose might abide, not from works, but from him who called;)

but when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son born of a woman, born under the law,

Now the son of the bond-maid was born after the flesh, but that by the free woman was by promise.

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so is it now.

who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be born in his appointed times;

By faith Moses, after he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child singularly beautiful; and they were not intimidated by the command of the king.

By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.

and to the general assembly and church of the first-born registered in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men perfected,

but every person is tempted, when by his own peculiar passion he is born away, and ensnared.

born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the quickening word of God, and which abideth for ever.

as new-born babes desire earnestly the unadulterated milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead unto sins, might live unto righteousness; "by whose stripes, [even] his, ye were healed."

If ye know that he is righteous, know that every one who practises righteousness is born of him.

Every one who is born of God, doth not practise sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

EVERY one who believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God; and every one who loveth him that begat, loveth him also who is begotten by him.

Because every one that is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.

We know that every one who is born of God sinneth not; but he that is born of God preserveth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not.

I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came, and bore witness to thy truth, even as thou walkest in the truth.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, and first-born from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: to him who loved us, and washed us from our sins by his blood,

And he bore me away in spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads, and ten horns.

And he bore me away in spirit unto a great and exceeding high mountain, and shewed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,