but he did not live with her as a husband till she bore a son, whom he called Jesus.

Now when Jesus was born at Bethlehem, belonging to Judaea, in the days of king Herod, magicians from the East arrived at Jerusalem,

asking, "Where is the newly-born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose, and we have come to worship him."

so he gathered all the high priests and scribes of the people and made inquiries of them about where the messiah was to be born.

Some other seeds fell on good soil and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirtyfold.

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

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

some other seed fell on good soil and bore a crop that sprang up and grew, yielding at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

for while many bore false witness against him their evidence did not agree.

Some got up and bore false witness against him, saying,

The angel answered her, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you; hence what is born will be called holy, Son of God.

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.

To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.

some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

While he was saying this, a woman shouted to him out of the crowd, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts you sucked!"

And he told them a parable. "A rich man's estate bore heavy crops.

And John bore this testimony also: "I saw the Spirit descend like a dove from heaven and rest on him.

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born 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?"

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm.

What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

Do not wonder at me telling you, 'You must all be born from above.'

The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

and they came and told John, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the opposite side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore testimony ??here he is, baptizing, and everybody goes to him!"

You sent to John, and he bore testimony to the truth

"Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."

and his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, for whose sin ??for his own or for his parents' ??was he born blind?"

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, "Is this your son, the son you declare was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

His parents answered, "This is our son, and he was born blind; we know that.

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."

They retorted, "And so you would teach us ??you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him.

When a woman is in labour she is sorry, for her time has come; but when the child is born she remembers her anguish no longer, for joy that a human being has been born into the world:

"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

It was at this period that Moses was born, a divinely beautiful child. For three months he was brought up in his father's house;

At that Moses fled; he became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he had two sons born to him.

For about forty years he bore with them in the desert,

After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore this testimony that 'In David, the son of Jessai, I have found a man after my own heart, who will obey all my will.'

At Lystra there was a man sitting, who was powerless in his feet, a lame man unable to walk ever since he was born.

"I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in all the strictness of our ancestral Law, ardent for God as you all are to-day.

The commander replied, "I had to pay a large sum for this citizenship." "But I was born a citizen," said Paul.

concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent

they are not all children of Abraham because they are descended from Abraham. No, it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned ??8 meaning that instead of God's children being the children born to him by natural descent, it is the children of the Promise who are reckoned as his true offspring.

all of which verifies the testimony we bore to Christ when we were with you.

but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.

but just as in the old days the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit, so it is still to-day.

but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise

He is the likeness of the unseen God, born first before all the creation ??16 for it was by him that all things were created both in heaven and on earth, both the seen and the unseen, including Thrones, angelic Lords, celestial Powers and Rulers; all things have been created by him and for him;

Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.

I appeal to you on behalf of my spiritual son born while I was in prison. It is Onesimus!

It was by faith that he celebrated the passover and performed the sprinkling by blood, so that the destroying angel might not touch Israel's first-born.

to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you,

You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God;

Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

But those people! ??like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,

As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him.

for whatever is born of God conquers the world. Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world.

We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him.

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore;

his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and flung them to the earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was on the point of being delivered, to devour her child as soon as it was born.

So the first went off and poured his bowl upon the land; and noisome, painful ulcers broke out on those who bore the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue.

So he bore me away rapt in the Spirit to the desert, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet Beast covered with blasphemous titles; it had seven heads and ten horns.