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

And Jesse, of David the king. David (by Uriah's widow), was the father of Solomon;

So the whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen; from David to the exile to Babylon is fourteen; and from the exile to Babylon to Christ is fourteen.

"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her is by the Holy Spirit; and she will bear a son, and you are to call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

And as he went on from thence two blind men followed Jesus, crying, "Have pity on us, Son of David!"

"Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too?

And all the crowds were amazed, and he began to say, "Can this be the Son of David?"

Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."

And two blind men, sitting by the side of the road, heard that it was Jesus who was passing by, and cried out, "Have pity on us, Master, Son of David!"

But the crowd checked them, to make them keep still. They cried out all the louder, saying, "Master, have pity on us, Son of David!"

And the crowds who preceded and those who followed after him shouted again and again, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

But when the chief priests and the Scribes saw the wonderful works he did, and the boys who were shouting in the Temple Courts and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!"

"What is your opinion concerning the Christ? Whose Son is he?" "David's," they answered.

"How then, "he said, "does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

"If David calls him Lord, how can he be his Son?"

He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men?

Hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began shouting and saying, "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!"

and many kept rebuking him and telling him to be quiet, but he only shouted much louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Blessed be the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna, in the highest!"

While he was teaching in the Temple courts, Jesus in his turn asked. "How is it that the Scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

David himself said in the Holy Spirit, "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand until I make thy foes the footstool of thy feet.'

"David himself then calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" Now the great mass of the people were wont to listen to him with delight;

to a maiden betrothed to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. Her name was Mary.

"He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. "And the Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David,

"And has raised up a mighty Deliverer for us In the house of his servant David,

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city if Nazareth, into Judea, to David's town of Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

"For unto you born this day in there is born in David's town a Saviour, who is the Anointed Lord.

son of Melea, son of Menna, son of Mattatha, son of Nathan, son of David,

"Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he and his followers were hungry?

Then he shouted out, saying, "Jesus, son of David, take pity on me!"

Those who went ahead began to reprove him and to tell him to be still; but he kept clamorously shouting all the more, "Son of David, take pity on me!"

"How is it," he asked them, "that they say that Christ is David's son?

"for David himself say's in the book of the Psalms, "The Lord said to my Lord. Sit at my right hand,

"David therefore himself calls him 'Lord,' and how can he be his son?"

"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?"

"Men and brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David in regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

For David says of him. "I beheld the Lord always before my face; For he is at my right hand lest I be shaken.

"Men and brothers, I can speak plainly to you concerning the patriarch David, because he not only died and was buried, but his tomb is among us even to this very day.

For David did not ascend into heaven; but he himself said, "The Lord said to my Lord Sit thou on my right hand

"who saidest through the Holy Spirit, by the lips of thy servant David, our forefather. "Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples form futile plans?

"That tabernacle was brought in by our ancestors, in their turn, when they under Joshua entered on the possession of the nations whom God thrust out before them, until the days of David.

"David obtained favor with God, and asked permission to find a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.

After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also bore witness, when he said, "I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, and who will obey all my will.

"And as to his having raised him from among the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has said this, "I will give thee the holy and sure blessings of David.

"For David, after he had served his own generation according to the will of God, fell on sleep, and was gathered to his forefathers, and did see corruption;

"After these things I will return, And I will rebuild David's fallen tent; And I will build again its ruins, And I will set it up;

this gospel is concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of David's posterity in respect of his bodily nature,

Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions.

As David says. Let their table be made a snare and a trap, And a stumbling-block and a recompense unto them;

Always remember that Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, has been raised from the dead according to the gospel I proclaim.

And what more shall I say? for time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, and of Jeptha; of David and Samuel and the prophets,

Write also to the angel of the Church in Philadelphia. These things says He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens, and no one shall shut; and who shuts, and no one opens.

But one of the Elders said to me. "Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, and so can open the book with its seven seals."

"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning Star.