The Genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

and Jacob of Joseph the husband of Mary, who was the mother of JESUS who is called CHRIST.

There are therefore, in all, fourteen generations from Abraham to David; fourteen from David to the Removal to Babylon; and fourteen from the Removal to Babylon to the Christ.

The circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ were these. After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they were united in marriage, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

So he assembled all the High Priests and Scribes of the people, and anxiously asked them where the Christ was to be born.

Now John had heard in prison about the Christ's doings, and he sent some of his disciples to inquire:

"You," replied Simon Peter, "are the Christ, the Son of the ever-living God."

Then He urged His disciples to tell no one that He was the Christ.

"What think you about the Christ," He said, "whose son is He?" "David's," they replied.

And do not accept the name of 'leader,' for your Leader is one alone--the Christ.

"for many will come assuming my name and saying 'I am the Christ;' and they will mislead many.

"If at that time any one should say to you, 'See, here is the Christ!' or 'Here!' give no credence to it.

Jesus however remained silent. Again the High Priest addressed Him. "In the name of the ever-living God," he said, "I now put you on your oath. Tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."

while they taunted Him, saying, "Christ, prove yourself a Prophet by telling us who it was that struck you."

So when they were now assembled Pilate appealed to them. "Whom shall I release to you," he said, "Barabbas, or Jesus the so-called Christ?"

"What then," said Pilate, "shall I do with Jesus, the so-called Christ?" With one voice they shouted, "Let him be crucified!"

And coming out of their tombs after Christ's resurrection they entered the holy city and showed themselves to many.

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ the Son of God.

Then He asked them pointedly, "But you yourselves, who do you say that I am?" "You are the Christ," answered Peter.

and whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, I solemnly tell you that he will certainly not lose his reward.

But, while teaching in the Temple, Jesus asked, "How is it the Scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

"At that time if any one says to you, 'See, here is the Christ!' or 'See, He is there!' do not believe it.

But He remained silent, and gave no reply. A second time the High Priest questioned Him. "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?" he said.

This Christ, the King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Even the men who were being crucified with Him heaped insults on Him.

Demons also came out of many, loudly calling out, "You are the Son of God." But He rebuked them and forbad them to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ.

But He asked them, "How is it they say that the Christ is a son of David?

"Are you the Christ? Tell us." "If I tell you," He replied, "you will certainly not believe;

Now one of the criminals who had been crucified insulted Him, saying, "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us."

Was there not a necessity for the Christ thus to suffer, and then enter into His glory?"

and He said, "Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise again from among the dead;

For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

He avowed--he did not conceal the truth, but avowed, "I am not the Christ."

Again they questioned him. "Why then do you baptize," they said, "if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

You yourselves can bear witness to my having said, 'I am not the Christ,' but 'I am His appointed forerunner.'

"I know," replied the woman, "that Messiah is coming--'the Christ,' as He is called. When He has come, He will tell us everything."

"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

But here he is, speaking openly and boldly, and they say nothing to him! Can the Rulers really have ascertained that this man is the Christ?

And yet we know this man, and we know where he is from; but as for the Christ, when He comes, no one can tell where He is from."

But from among the crowd a large number believed in Him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will He perform more miracles than this teacher has performed?"

Others said, "He is the Christ." But others again, "Not so, for is the Christ to come from Galilee?

Has not the Scripture declared that the Christ is to come of the family of David and from Bethlehem, David's village?"

Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue.

when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, "How long do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so plainly."

"Yes, Master," she replied; "I thoroughly believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

The crowd answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ remains for ever. In what sense do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is that Son of Man?"

And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

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

with prophetic foresight he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, to the effect that He was not left forsaken in the Unseen World, nor did His body undergo decay.

"Therefore let the whole House of Israel know beyond all doubt that God has made Him both LORD and CHRIST--this Jesus whom you crucified."

"Repent," replied Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, with a view to the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

"I have no silver or gold," Peter said, "but what I have, I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene-- walk!"

But in this way God has fulfilled the declarations He made through all the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer.

and that He may send the Christ appointed beforehand for you--even Jesus.

But they did not desist from teaching every day, in the Temple or in private houses, and telling the Good News about Jesus, the Christ.

while Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed Christ there.

But when Philip began to tell the Good News about the Kingdom of God and about the Name of Jesus Christ, and they embraced the faith, they were baptized, men and women alike.

Saul, however, gained more and more influence, and as for the Jews living in Damascus, he bewildered them with his proofs that Jesus is the Christ.

Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you. Rise and make your own bed." He at once rose to his feet.

The Message which He sent to the descendants of Israel, when He announced the Good News of peace through Jesus Christ--He is Lord of all--that Message you cannot but know;

And he directed that they should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to remain with them for a time.

"If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, why, who was I to be able to thwart God?"

But John, towards the end of his career, repeatedly asked the people, "'What do you suppose me to be? I am not the Christ. But there is One coming after me whose sandal I am not worthy to unfasten.'

For such is the Lord's command to us. "'I have placed Thee,' He says of Christ, 'as a light to the Gentiles, in order that Thou mayest be a Saviour as far as the remotest parts of the earth.'"

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

This she persisted in for a considerable time, until Paul, wearied out, turned round and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out immediately.

which he clearly explained, pointing out that it had been necessary for the Christ to suffer and rise again from the dead, and insisting, "The Jesus whom I am announcing to you is the Christ."

Now at the time when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was preaching fervently and was solemnly telling the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

for he powerfully and in public overcame the Jews in argument, proving to them from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

Not long after this, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, a Jewess, and sending for Paul, listened to him as he spoke about faith in Christ Jesus.

since the Christ was to be a suffering Christ, and by coming back from the dead was then to be the first to proclaim a message of light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

He announced the coming of the Kingdom of God, and taught concerning the Lord Jesus Christ without let or hindrance.

Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to proclaim God's Good News,

but as regards the holiness of His Spirit was decisively proved by His Resurrection to be the Son of God--I mean concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

among whom you also, called, as you have been, to belong to Jesus Christ, are numbered:

To all God's loved ones who are in Rome, called to be saints. May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for what He has done for all of you; for the report of your faith is spreading through the whole world.

on the day when God will judge the secrets of men's lives by Jesus Christ, as declared in the Good News as I have taught it.

a righteousness coming from God, which depends on faith in Jesus Christ and extends to all who believe. No distinction is made;

gaining acquittal from guilt by His free unpurchased grace through the deliverance which is found in Christ Jesus.

Standing then acquitted as the result of faith, let us enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

For if while we were hostile to God we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, it is still more certain that now that we are reconciled, we shall obtain salvation through Christ's life.

And not only so, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now obtained that reconciliation.

But God's free gift immeasurably outweighs the transgression. For if through the transgression of the one individual the mass of mankind have died, infinitely greater is the generosity with which God's grace, and the gift given in His grace which found expression in the one man Jesus Christ, have been bestowed on the mass of mankind.

For if, through the transgression of the one individual, Death made use of the one individual to seize the sovereignty, all the more shall those who receive God's overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in Life through the one individual, Jesus Christ.

in order that as sin has exercised kingly sway in inflicting death, so grace, too, may exercise kingly sway in bestowing a righteousness which results in the Life of the Ages through Jesus Christ our Lord.

And do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.

But, seeing that we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him;

because we know that Christ, having come back to life, is no longer liable to die.

In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.

For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!)

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

for the Spirit's Law-- telling of Life in Christ Jesus--has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.

You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.

But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin, yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness.

And if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ from the dead will give Life also to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you.