The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

And the son of Jacob was Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, whose name is Christ.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit.

And he got together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, questioning them as to where the birth-place of the Christ would be.

Now when John had news in prison of the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples

And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Then he gave orders to the disciples to give no man word that he was the Christ.

What is your opinion of the Christ? whose son is he? They say to him, The Son of David.

And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.

For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them.

Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him;

But Jesus said not a word. And the high priest said to him, I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will say to us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.

Be a prophet, O Christ, and say who gave you a blow!

So when they came together, Pilate said to them, Whom will you have? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is named Christ?

Pilate says to them, What, then, am I to do with Jesus, who is named Christ? They all say, Let him be put to death on the cross.

The first words of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

And he said to them, But who do you say I am? Peter said in answer, You are the Christ.

Whoever gives you a cup of water, because you are Christ's, truly I say to you, he will in no way be without his reward.

And Jesus, when he was teaching in the Temple, said, How do the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?

And then if any man says to you, See, here is Christ; or, See, there; have no faith in it:

But he kept quiet and said nothing. Again the high priest questioning him said, Are you the Christ, the son of the Holy One?

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and have belief. And those who were put on crosses with him said evil things against him.

For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.

And he had knowledge, through the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death till he had seen the Lord's Christ.

And while the people were waiting, and all men were questioning in their hearts about John, if he was the Christ or not,

And evil spirits came out of a number of them, crying out and saying, You are the Son of God. But he gave them sharp orders not to say a word, because they had knowledge that he was the Christ.

And he said, But who do you say that I am? And Peter, answering, said, The Christ of God.

And he said to them, Why do they say that the Christ is the son of David?

If you are the Christ, say so. But he said, If I say so you will not have belief;

And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.

And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.

Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?

And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

He said quite openly and straightforwardly, I am not the Christ.

And they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?

Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ).

You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.

The woman said to him, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us.

Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?

And here he is talking openly and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that the rulers have knowledge that this is truly the Christ?

However, it is clear to us where this man comes from: but when the Christ comes no one will have knowledge where he comes from.

And numbers of the people had belief in him, and they said, When the Christ comes will he do more signs than this man has done?

Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee?

Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?

They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.

Then the Jews came round him, saying, how long are you going to keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, say so clearly.

She said to him, Yes, Lord: my faith is that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.

Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.

He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.

For this reason, let all Israel be certain that this Jesus, whom you put to death on the cross, God has made Lord and Christ.

And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.

But Peter said, I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up on your feet.

But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.

And that he may send the Christ who was marked out for you from the first, even Jesus:

Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.

The kings of the earth were lifted up, the rulers came together, against the Lord, and against his Christ:

For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,

And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

And Philip went down to Samaria and was teaching them about Christ.

But when they had faith in the good news given by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, a number of men and women had baptism.

But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ.

And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes you well: get up and make your bed. And straight away he got up.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all)--

And he gave orders for them to have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they kept him with them for some days.

If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

Men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And this she did on a number of days. But Paul was greatly troubled and, turning, said to the spirit, I give you orders in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.

Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ.

And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was completely given up to the word, preaching to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.

For he overcame the Jews in public discussion, making clear from the holy Writings that the Christ was Jesus.

Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was of the Jews by birth, and sent for Paul, and gave hearing to him about faith in Christ Jesus.

That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.

Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ without fear, and no orders were given that he was not to do so.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,

Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ:

To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.

That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.

But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?

We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.

Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.