The family tree of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, a descendant of Abraham.

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

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen, from David to the Babylonian Exile fourteen, from the Babylonian Exile to Christ fourteen.

Now the birth of Christ Jesus occurred under these conditions: After His mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, but before they had lived together, she was found to be an expectant mother through the influence of the Holy Spirit.

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

Now when John in prison heard of the doings of the Christ, he sent this message by his disciples:

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Then He admonished the disciples not to tell anyone that He was the Christ.

It was just after that that Jesus Christ for the first time clearly taught His disciples that He had to go to Jerusalem and submit to many forms of suffering at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, but be raised to life on the third day.

"What is your opinion of the Christ? Whose son is He?" They answered Him, "He is David's son."

And you must not be called 'leaders,' for you have only one Leader, and that is Christ.

for many will come bearing the name of the Messiah, and saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many people.

"If anyone at that time says to you, 'Here is the Christ!' or 'There He is!' do not believe it,

But Jesus kept silent. So the high priest said to Him, "I charge you, on your oath, in the name of the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."

saying, "Play the prophet, you Christ, and tell us who struck you."

So when they met for this purpose, Pilate asked them, "Which one do you want me to set free, Barabbas, or Jesus, the so-called Christ?"

Pilate asked them, "What then shall I do with Jesus. the so-called Christ?" They all answered, "Have Him crucified!"

The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ.

Then He began to ask them, "Who do you yourselves say that I am?" Peter answered Him, "You are the Christ."

"For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink, on the ground that you belong to Christ, I solemnly say to you, he will not fail to get his reward.

While He was teaching in the temple, He answered them and said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

"If anyone says to you at that time, 'Look! Here is the Christ,' or, 'Look! There He is,' do not believe it.

But He kept silent and made no answer at all. So the high priest again questioned Him in these words, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see it and believe!" Even the men who were crucified with Him made sport of Him.

Now while the people were on tiptoe in their expectations, and they were all arguing in their hearts about John whether he was himself the Christ,

Even demons came out of many people, shrieking and saying, "You are the Son of God!" But He reproved them and would not let them speak, because they knew that He was the Christ.

So He said to them, "But who do you, yourselves, say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God!"

Then He said to them, "How do people say that the Christ is David's Son?

"Tell us, if you are the Christ." But He said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe me,

Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. Even the members of the council were scoffing at Him and saying, "He saved others, let Him now save Himself, if He really is the Christ of God, His Chosen One!"

Now one of the criminals who were hanging from their crosses kept abusing Him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Then save yourself and us too!"

Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that the Christ should suffer as He has suffered, should rise from the dead on the third day,

For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

He frankly admitted, and did not try at all to deny it; yes, he frankly admitted, "I am not the Christ."

so they asked him, "Why are you baptizing then, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means, the Christ).

Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people, because they saw the wonder-works which He was performing, trusted in Him as the Christ.

You can bear testimony to me yourselves that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent as His announcer.'

The woman said to Him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the One who is called the Christ. When He comes, He will tell us everything."

"Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?"

Just look! He is talking in public, and yet they do not say a word to Him! It cannot be that the authorities have really learned that He is the Christ, can it?

But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, however, no one will know where He is from."

But many of the crowd believed in Him, and said, "When the Christ comes, He will not perform greater wonder-works than He did, will He?"

Others said, "This is the Christ." But still others said, "The Christ does not come from Galilee, does He?

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

So I have told you that you would die under the curse of your sins, for unless you believe that I am the Christ, you will die under the curse of your sins."

So Jesus said to them, "When you lift the Son of Man (on the cross), you will know that I am the Christ, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I say exactly what my Father has instructed me to say.

His parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone owned Jesus as the Christ, he should be shut out of the synagogues.

So the Jews surrounded Him and kept asking Him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so plainly."

She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

The crowd answered Him, "We have learned from the law that the Christ is to remain here forever, and so how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

From now on I will tell you things before they take place, so that when they do take place, you may believe that I am the Christ.

Now eternal life means knowing you as the only true God and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.

But these have been recorded, in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life, as bearers of His name.

he foresaw the resurrection of the Christ and told of it, for He was not forsaken to Hades, and His body did not undergo decay.

"Therefore, let all the descendants of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."

Peter said to them, "You must repent -- and, as an expression of it, let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ -- that you may have your sins forgiven; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

But in this way God fulfilled what He by the lips of all the prophets foretold, that the Christ should suffer.

and He may send back Jesus, the Christ who long ago was appointed for you.

you and all the people of Israel must know that it is by the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead -- yes, I repeat it, it is by His authority that this man stands here before you well.

The kings of the earth took their stand. The rulers met against the Lord, and too, against His Christ.'

and not for a single day did they stop teaching in the temple square and in private houses the good news of Jesus the Christ.

So Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began to preach the Christ to the Samaritans.

But when the people came to believe the good news proclaimed by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were constantly baptized.

But Saul grew stronger and stronger and continued to put to utter confusion the Jews who lived in Damascus, by proving that Jesus is the Christ.

So Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ now cures you! Get up and make your bed!" And at once he got up.

He has sent His message to the descendants of Israel, by telling them the good news of peace through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all.

So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to stay on there a few days.

So if God had given them the same gift that He gave us when we believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to try -- and how could I if I tried -- to thwart God?"

As John was closing his career, he said, 'What do you take me to be? I am not the Christ; no, but He is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the shoes on His feet.'

who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.

She kept this up for a number of days. Because Paul was so much annoyed by her, he turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her." And that very moment it came out.

explaining them and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead, and said, "This very Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Christ."

By the time Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was wholly absorbed in preaching the message and was enthusiastically assuring the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

for he successfully refuted the Jews in public and proved by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

Some days later, Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him talk about faith in Christ Jesus.

if the Christ should suffer, and by being the first to rise from the dead was to proclaim the light to the Jewish people and to the heathen."

yes, he continued to preach to them the kingdom of God, and to teach them about the Lord Jesus Christ, and that with perfect, unfettered freedom of speech.

Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to preach God's good news,

proved to be God's Son in power by the resurrection from the dead -- I mean, Jesus Christ, our Lord,

among whom you too as called ones belong to Jesus Christ --

to all those in Rome who are God's loved ones, called to be His people: spiritual blessing and peace be yours from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

First, through Jesus Christ I thank my God for you all, because the report of your faith is spreading all over the world.

on the day when God through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the good news I preach, will judge the secrets people have kept.

God's own way of giving men right standing with Himself is through faith in Jesus Christ. It is for everybody who has faith, for no distinction at all is made.

but anybody may have right standing with God as a free gift of His undeserved favor, through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus.

Since we have been given right standing with God through faith, then let us continue enjoying peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For when we were still helpless, Christ at the proper time died for us ungodly men.

But God proves His love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

So if we have already been brought into right standing with God by Christ's death, it is much more certain that by Him we shall be saved from God's wrath.

And not only that, but this too: we shall continue exulting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained our reconciliation.

But God's free gift is not at all to be compared with the offense. For if by one man's offense the whole race of men have died, to a much greater degree God's favor and His gift imparted by His favor through the one man Jesus Christ, has overflowed for the whole race of men.

For if by one man's offense death reigned through that one, to a much greater degree will those who continue to receive the overflow of His unmerited favor and His gift of right standing with Himself, reign in real life through One, Jesus Christ.

so that just as sin had reigned by death, so His favor too might reign in right standing with God which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Or, do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

So if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

for we know that Christ, who once was raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more power over Him.

For the wages paid by sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.