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

but did not cohabit with her as a wife, before she had-brought forth her first-born son; whom he named JESUS.

When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the reign of king Herod, certain eastern Magi came to Jerusalem, with this enquiry,

Where is this king of the Jews who is now born? for we have seen his rising star, and are come to pay him homage.

and having assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he enquired of them where Christ was to be born.

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

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 to die, pursuant to the scripture: but wo to that man by whom the son of man is betrayed: it had been better for that man, if he had never been born.

the son of man is going indeed, according to what is written of him: but wo to that man, by whom the son of man is betrayed: it would be better for that man, if he had never been born.

and being brought to bed of her first born, she swathed him, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

for the Lord Messiah your saviour is this day born, in the city of David:

"every first born male-child shall be consecrated to the Lord."

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?

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

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.

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,

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?

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

and his disciples propos'd to him this question, master, was it for his own sins, or for the sins of his parents, that he was born blind?

and ask'd them, is this your son, who you say was born blind? how came it then that he now sees?

his parents answered, that this is our son, and that he was born blind: we are very certain.

It was never heard since the world began, that any man gave sight to one that was born blind.

a woman when she is in travail, is afflicted at the approach of her pains: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, the remembrance of her anguish, is lost in her joy, that a man is born into the world.

upon this Pilate said to him, you are then a king? Jesus answered, you say right, for I am a king. to this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, to persuade mankind of the truth. every one that loves truth is observant of my directions.

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.

in which time Moses was born, who was exceeding fair, and nourished in his father's house three months:

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

In the mean time a Jew, nam'd Apollos, born at Alexandria, a man of letters, and vers'd in the scriptures, arriv'd at Ephesus.

from thence we bore away: the next day we came off Chios, and the day after we pass'd by Samos, landing at Trogyllium, and arrived at Miletus the next day.

as he was mounting the stairs, the soldiers bore him up thro' the violence of the people, who were all pressing after,

For several days we made very little sail, and having scarce got sight of Cnidus, the wind being against us, we bore away between Salmone and Crete:

but soon after it blew a storm from north-east, which bore so upon the ship,

For several days, we had not seen either sun or stars: the tempest still bore hard: all our hopes of escape quite sunk,

for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,

if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,

for as the woman was taken from the man, so man is born of the woman: and all are from God.

for as we have born the image of the terrestrial, so we shall bear the image of the celestial.

God sent forth his own son born of a woman, and subject to the law, to redeem those,

he, who was of the bond-woman, was born according to the ordinary course of nature; but he, who was of the free-woman, was born by virtue of the promise.

these things have an allegorical meaning: the two women signify the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, which is represented by Agar, whose children were born in a state of servitude.

but as then, he that was born in the ordinary course of nature, persecuted him, who was born by an extraordinary power; even so it is now.

he is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of the whole creation.

he himself is the head of the church, which is his body. he is the prince, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be chief.

through faith he celebrated the passover, and sprinkled blood, that the destroying angel might pass by the first-born.

the church of the first-born who are enroll'd in heaven, to God the judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,

whosoever is born of God, does not commit sin; for the divine principle remaineth in him: he will not sin, because he is born of God.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God: and every one that loves the father, will likewise be affected with love to his son.

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

his tail swept the third part of the stars of heaven; and cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered, in order to devour her child as soon as it was born.