"Where is the new-born King of the Jews? for we saw his star in the east, and have come to do homage to him."

He called together all the Chief Priests and Teachers of the Law in the nation, and questioned them as to where the Christ was to be born.

In fulfillment of these words in the Prophet Isaiah--'He took our infirmities on himself, and bore the burden of our diseases.'

I tell you, no one born of a woman has yet appeared who is greater than John the Baptist; and yet the lowliest in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

True, the Son of Man must go, as Scripture says of him, yet alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is being betrayed! For that man 'it would be better never to have been born!'"

True, the Son of Man must go, as Scripture says of him, yet alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is being betrayed! For that man 'it would be better never to have been born!'"

This day there has been born to you, in the town of David, a Savior, who is Christ and Lord.

In compliance with the Law of the Lord that 'every first-born male shall be dedicated to the Lord,'

There is, I tell you, no one born of a woman who is greater than John; and yet the lowliest in the Kingdom of God is greater than he."

As Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd, raising her voice, exclaimed: "Happy was the mother who bore you and nursed you!"

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.

"How can a man," asked Nicodemus, "be born when he is old? Can he be born a second time?"

"Rabbi," asked his disciples, "who was it that sinned, this man or his parents, that he was 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.

"Is this your son," they asked, "who you say was born blind? If so, how is it that he can see now?"

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

Since the world began, such a thing was never heard of as any one's giving sight to a person born blind.

"You," they retorted, "were born totally depraved; and are you trying to teach us?" So they expelled him.

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.

"So you are a King after all!" exclaimed Pilate. "Yes, it is true I am a King," answered Jesus. "I was born for this, I have come into the world for this--to bear testimony to the Truth. Every one who is on the side of Truth listens to my voice."

It was just at this time that Moses was born. He was an exceedingly beautiful child, and for three months was brought up in his own father's house;

At these words Moses took to flight, and became an exile in Midian; and there he had two sons born to him.

For about forty years 'he bore with them in the Desert';

After removing him, he raised David to the throne, and bore this testimony to him--'In David, the son of Jesse, I have found a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my purposes.'

The Jews also joined in the attack and bore out his statements.

They then fixed a day with him, and came to the place where he was staying, in even larger numbers, when Paul proceeded to lay the subject before them. He bore his testimony to the Kingdom of God, and tried to convince them about Jesus, by arguments drawn from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets--speaking from morning till evening.

When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.

This means that it is not the children born in the course of nature who are God's Children, but it is the children born in fulfillment of the Promise who are to be regarded as Abraham's descendants.

For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail-a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his Call-Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong,

And what if God, intending to reveal his displeasure and make his power known, bore most patiently with the objects of his displeasure, though they were fit only to be destroyed,

Look at the facts of your Call, Brothers. There are not many among you who are wise, as men reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;

But, when I saw that they were not dealing straightforwardly with the Truth of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, who were born a Jew, adopt Gentile customs, instead of Jewish, why are you trying to compel the Gentile converts to adopt Jewish customs?"

But, when the full time came, God sent his Son--born a woman's child, born subject to Law--

But the child of the slave-woman was born in the course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfillment of a promise.

As for ourselves, brothers, we, like Isaac, are children born in fulfillment of a promise.

Yet at that time the child born in the course of nature persecuted the child born by the power of the Spirit; and it is the same now.

For Christ is the very incarnation of the invisible God-- First-born and Head of all creation;

And he is the Head of the Church, which is his Body. The First-born from the dead, he is to the Church the Source of its Life, that he, in all things, may stand first.

And again, when God brought the First-born into the world, he said-- 'Let all the angels of God bow down before him.'

And, when he prayed again, the clouds brought rain, and the land bore crops.

like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow till you attain Salvation--

and from Jesus Christ, ' the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead, and the Ruler of all the Kings of the earth.' To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his own blood--

His tail draws after it a third of the stars in the heavens, and it hurled them down on the earth. The Dragon is standing in front of the woman who is about to give birth to the child, so that he may devour it as soon as it is born.

Their victory was due to the Blood of the Lamb, and to the Message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.

The first angel went and emptied his bowl upon the earth; and it turned to loathsome and painful sores upon all who bore the brand of the Beast and who worshiped its image.

And he bore me away in a trance to a lonely place, and I saw a woman seated upon a scarlet Beast, which was covered with blasphemous names; it had seven heads and ten horns.

in the middle of the street of the City. On each side of the river was a Tree of Life which bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.