This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

Now when John heard in prison about the deeds Christ had done, he sent his disciples to ask a question:

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

Then he instructed his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

"What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said, "The son of David."

Nor are you to be called 'teacher,' for you have one teacher, the Christ.

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will mislead many.

Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe him.

But Jesus was silent. The high priest said to him, "I charge you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."

saying, "Prophesy for us, you Christ! Who hit you?"

So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?"

Pilate said to them, "Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Christ?" They all said, "Crucify him!"

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

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

For I tell you the truth, whoever gives you a cup of water because you bear Christ's name will never lose his reward.

While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he said, "How is it that the experts in the law say that the Christ is David's son?

Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'Look, there he is!' do not believe him.

But he was silent and did not answer. Again the high priest questioned him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!" Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,

Demons also came out of many, crying out, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God."

But he said to them, "How is it that they say that the Christ is David's son?

and said, "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe,

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king."

The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying, "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"

Wasn't it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?"

and said to them, "Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

He confessed -- he did not deny but confessed -- "I am not the Christ!"

So they asked John, "Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated Christ).

You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but rather, 'I have been sent before him.'

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever he comes, he will tell us everything."

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, "Whenever the Christ comes, he won't perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But still others said, "No, for the Christ doesn't come from Galilee, does he?

Don't the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."

Then the crowd responded, "We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ's glory, and spoke about him.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.

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

Peter said to them, "Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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

But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets -- that his Christ would suffer -- he has fulfilled in this way.

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy.

The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.'

And every day both in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus was the Christ.

Philip went down to the main city of Samaria and began proclaiming the Christ to them.

But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.

But Saul became more and more capable, and was causing consternation among the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.

Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Get up and make your own bed!" And immediately he got up.

You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all) --

So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

Therefore if God gave them the same gift as he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?"

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

She continued to do this for many days. But Paul became greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out of her at once.

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, "This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ."

Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

for he refuted the Jews vigorously in public debate, demonstrating from the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

Some days later, when Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.

From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.

who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.