The birth-roll of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

and Jessai the father of king David. David was the father of Solomon by Uriah's wife,

Thus all the generations from Abraham to David number fourteen, from David to the Babylonian captivity fourteen, and from the Babylonian captivity to Christ fourteen.

but after he had planned this, there appeared an angel of the Lord to him in a dream saying, "Joseph, son of David, fear not to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her comes from the holy Spirit.

As Jesus passed along from there, he was followed by two blind men who shrieked, "Son of David, have pity on us!"

He replied, "Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry,

And all the crowds were amazed; they said, "Can this be the Son of David?"

And a woman of Canaan came out of these parts and wailed, "Have pity on me, Lord, O Son of David! My daughter is cruelly possessed by a daemon."

and when two blind men who were sitting beside the road heard Jesus was passing, they shouted, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"

The crowd checked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"

And the crowds who went in front of him and who followed behind shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name! Hosanna in high heaven!"

But when the high priests and scribes saw his wonderful deeds and saw the children who shouted in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant;

"Tell me," he said, "what you think about the Christ. Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

He said to them, "How is it then that David in the Spirit calls him Lord?

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

He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and his men?

heard it was Jesus of Nazaret. So he started to shout, "Son of David! Jesus! have pity on me."

A number of the people checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

Blessed be the Reign to come, our father David's reign. Hosanna in high heaven!"

And as Jesus taught in the temple he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?

David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

David here calls him Lord. Then how can he be his son?" Now the mass of the people listened with delight to him.

to a maiden who was betrothed to a man called Joseph, belonging to the house of David. The maiden's name was Mary.

He will be great, he will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father;

he has raised up a strong saviour for us in the house of his servant David

and as Joseph belonged to the house and family of David he went up from Galilee to Judaea, from the town of Nazaret to David's town called Bethlehem,

To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.

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

But Jesus answered them, "And have you never read what David did when he and his men were hungry?

So he shouted, "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!"

The people in front checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

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

Why, David himself says in the book of psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

David then calls him Lord. So how can he be his son?"

Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"

"My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

For David says of him, I saw the Lord before me evermore; lest I be shaken, he is at my right hand.

Brothers, I can speak quite plainly to you about the patriarch David; he died and was buried and his tomb remains with us to this day.

For it was not David who ascended to heaven; David says, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

who said to our fathers by the holy Spirit through the lips of thy servant David, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples vainly conspire?

It was passed on and borne in by our fathers as with Joshua they took possession of the territory of the nations whom God drove out before our fathers. So it remained down to the days of David.

After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore this testimony that 'In David, the son of Jessai, I have found a man after my own heart, who will obey all my will.'

And as a proof that he has raised him from the dead, never to return to decay, he has said this: I will give you the holiness of David that fails not.

Of course David, after serving God's purpose in his own generation, died and was laid beside his fathers; he suffered decay,

After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent, its ruins I will rebuild and erect it anew,

concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent

Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does ??7 Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered!

And David says, Let their table prove a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a retribution for them;

Never forget "Jesus Christ risen from the dead, descended from David" ??that is my gospel,

he again fixes a day; To-day ??as he says in 'David' after so long an interval, and as has been already quoted ??To-day, when you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

And what more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak and Samson and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets ??33 men who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouth of lions,

Then to the angel of the church at Philadelphia write thus: ??These are the words of the true Holy One, who holds the key of David, who opens and none shall shut, who shuts and none shall open.

but one of the Presbyters told me, "Weep not; lo, the Lion of Judah's tribe, the Scion of David, he has won the power of opening the scroll and its seven seals."

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