After the Babylonian Exile, Jeconiah had a son named Shealtiel, and Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel,

So when Joseph awoke from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had directed him, and took his wife to his home.

But he did not live with her as a husband until she had had a son, and he named the child Jesus.

So they obeyed the king and went, and the star which they had seen rise led them on until it reached the place where the child was, and stopped above it.

Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another way.

Then Herod saw that he had been tricked by the astrologers, and he was very angry, and he sent and made away with all the boys in Bethlehem and in all that neighborhood who were two years old or under, for that was the tune he had learned from the astrologers by his inquiries.

John wore clothing made of hair cloth, and he had a leather belt around his waist, and he lived on dried locusts and wild honey.

But when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he retreated to Galilee.

When he saw the crowds of people he went up on the mountain. There he seated himself, and when his disciples had come up to him,

You must not swear by your own head, for you cannot make one single hair white or black.

"You have heard that they were told, 'You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'

No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.

When Jesus had finished this discourse, the crowds were astounded at his teaching,

for he taught them like one who had authority and not like their scribes.

And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes and wild birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no where to lay his head!"

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak.

But when he had driven the people out, he went in and grasped her hand, and the girl got up.

When he had gone indoors, the blind men came up to him, and he said to them, "Do you believe that I can do this?" They said to him, "Yes, sir."

A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!

Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

When Jesus had finished giving his twelve disciples these instructions, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

Then he began to reproach the towns in which his numerous wonders had been done, because they did not repent.

"Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago!

And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have stood until today.

but when the sun came up it was scorched and withered up, because it had no root.

Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a hoard of money, buried in a field, which a man found, and buried again. And he was overjoyed, and went and sold everything he had and bought the field.

He found one costly pearl, and went and sold everything he had, and bought it.

When Jesus had finished these figures, he left that place,

For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

But she, at her mother's instigation, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter!"

And the king was sorry, but because he had sworn to do it, and because of the guests who were present, he ordered it to be given to her.

And he sent and had John beheaded in the prison.

And his head was brought back on a platter and given to the girl, and she took it to her mother.

And they all ate and had enough. And the pieces left over that they gathered up filled twelve baskets.

After he had dismissed them he went up the hill by himself to pray. And when evening came on he was there alone,

It was then that Jesus Christ for the first time explained to his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem and endure great suffering there at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised to life on the third day.

He called a child to him and had him stand among them,

And as he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all he had, in payment of the debt.

But he refused and went and had him put in prison until he should pay the debt.

When his fellow-slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went to their master and reported the whole matter to him.

When Jesus had finished this discourse, he left Galilee and went to the part of Judea that is on the other side of the Jordan.

But when the young man heard that, he went away much cast down, for he had a great deal of property.

Then Peter spoke and said to him, "Here we have left all we had and followed you. What are we to have?"

and said, 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have put them on the same footing with us who have done the heavy work of the day and have stood the midday heat.'

When they were near Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples on ahead,

So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them;

When he had entered the Temple, and was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came up to him, and said, "What authority have you for doing as you do, and who gave you this authority?"

But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'My son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

Again he sent other slaves and more of them than he had sent at first, and they treated them in the same way.

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come.

And he said to him, 'My friend, how did you happen to come here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say.

And he said to them, "Whose head and title is this?"

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first of them married and died, and as he had no children, he left his wife to his brother;

And when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,

and say, 'If we had been living in the times of our fathers, we would not have joined them in the murder of the prophets.'

Then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

But the sensible ones answered, 'There may not be enough for us and you. You had better go to the dealers and buy yourselves some.'

The man who had received the five thousand dollars immediately went into business with the money, and made five thousand more.

In the same way the man who had received the two thousand made two thousand more.

But the man who had received the one thousand went away and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

And the man who had received the five thousand dollars came up bringing him five thousand more, and said, 'Sir, you put five thousand dollars in my hands; here I have made five thousand more.'

And the man who had received the two thousand came up and said, 'Sir, you put two thousand dollars into my hands; here I have made two thousand more.'

And the man who had received the one thousand came up and said, 'Sir, I knew you were a hard man, who reaped where you had not sown, and gathered where you had not threshed,

and I was frightened, and I went and hid your thousand dollars in the ground. Here is your money!'

His master answered, 'You wicked, idle slave! You knew that I reaped where I had not sown and gathered where I had not threshed?

when I had no clothes, you gave me clothes, when I was sick, you looked after me, when I was in prison, you came to see me.'

when I was a stranger, you did not invite me home, when I had no clothes, you did not supply me, when I was sick and in prison, you did not look after me.'

When Jesus had finished this discourse he said to his disciples,

a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume and poured it upon his head, while he was at table.

The Son of Man is to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"

The men who had seized Jesus took him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, at whose house the scribes and elders had gathered.

And Peter remembered Jesus' words when he had said, "Before a cock crows, you will disown me three times!" And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Then Judas who had betrayed him, when he saw that he had been condemned, in his remorse brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders,

So the words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: "They took the thirty silver pieces, the price of the one whose price had been fixed, on whom some of the Israelites had set a price,

For he knew that they had handed him over to him out of envy.

Now while he was on the bench his wife sent to him to say, "Do not have anything to do with that upright man, for I have just had a painful experience in a dream about him."

Then he released Barabbas for them, and he had Jesus flogged and handed him over to be crucified.

and made a wreath of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a stick in his hand, and knelt down before him in mockery, saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

And they spat at him, and took the stick and struck him on the head.

And when they had finished making sport of him, they took off the cloak, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to be crucified.

They put above his head the charge against him, which read, "This is Jesus, the king of the Jews."

the tombs opened, and many of the saints who had fallen asleep rose

There were several women there watching from a distance who had followed Jesus from Galilee to wait upon him,

In the evening a rich man named Joseph, from Arimathea, who had himself been a disciple of Jesus, came.

and laid it in a new tomb that belonged to him, that he had cut in the rock, and he rolled a great stone over the doorway of the tomb, and went away.

While they were on their way, some of the guard went into the city and reported to the high priests all that had happened.

And the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.

And they were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

As they could not get him near Jesus on account of the crowd, they broke open the roof just over his head, and through the opening they lowered the mat with the paralytic lying on it.

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from the other side of the Jordan and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon a great many who had heard of the things he was doing came to him.

For he cured so many people that all who had any ailments pressed up to him to touch him.

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

but when the sun came up, it was scorched, and withered up, because it had no root.

When he was by himself, those who stayed about him with the Twelve asked him about the figures he had used.

The ground of itself is productive, putting forth first a blade, then a head, then fully developed wheat in the head.

for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him,

And the men who tended them ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around, and the people came to see what had happened.