Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac of Jacob, and Jacob of Judah and his brothers,

and Judah of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar. And Perez was the father of Hezron, and Hezron of Aram,

Now after the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of King Herod, astrologers from the east arrived at Jerusalem,

They said, "At Bethlehem in Judea, for this is what the prophet wrote:

" 'And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, You are by no means least important among the leading places of Judah, For from you will come a leader Who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.' "

But hearing that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to return there; and being warned in a dream, he took refuge in the region of Galilee,

In those days John the Baptist appeared, and preached in the desert of Judea.

Then Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole Jordan valley went out to him,

Great crowds followed him about, from Galilee and the Ten Towns and Jerusalem and Judea and from the other side of the Jordan.

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.

"So when you see the dreadful desecration, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the Holy Place"??he reader must take note of this??16 "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

And all Judea and everybody in Jerusalem went out to him there, and accepted baptism from him in the Jordan River, acknowledging their sins.

So Jesus retired with his disciples to the seashore, and a great many people from Galilee followed him, and from Judea

And he left that place and went into the district of Judea and crossed the Jordan, and crowds of people again gathered about him, and again he taught them as he was accustomed to do.

But as soon as you see the dreadful desecration standing where he has no right to stand" (the reader must take note of this), "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

In the days when Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the division of Abijah. His wife was also a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

In those days Mary set out and hurried to the hill-country, to a town in Judah,

And all their neighbors were overcome with fear, and all over the hill-country of Judea all these stories were told,

And Joseph went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he belonged to the house and family of David,

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod governor of Galilee, while his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the governor of Abilene,

the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,

the son of Symeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,

the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

So he went about Judea, preaching in the synagogues.

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

This story about him spread all over Judea and the surrounding country.

Then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills, those who are in the city must get out of it, and those who are in the country must not go into it,

But they persisted and said, "He is stirring up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He began in Galilee and he has come here."

After this Jesus went into the country of Judea with his disciples, and stayed there with them and baptized.

So a discussion arose between John's disciples and a man from Judea, about purification.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

This second sign Jesus showed after coming back from Judea to Galilee.

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

So his brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the things you are doing.

and then afterward said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."

but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, of Judea and Cappadocia, of Pontus, and Asia,

Then Peter stood up with the eleven around him, and raising his voice addressed them. "Men of Judea," he said, "and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you, and pay attention to what I say.

And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles.

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace and became established. It lived in reverence for the Lord and, stimulated by the holy Spirit, it grew steadily in numbers.

You know the story that has gone all over Judea, starting from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed,

The apostles and brothers all over Judea heard that the heathen had also accepted God's message,

The disciples determined to make up a contribution, each according to his ability, and send it to the brothers who lived in Judea,

Herod had inquiries made for him, and when he could not find him, he examined the guards and ordered them to be put to death. Then he left Judea for Caesarea, and stayed there.

Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers that unless they were circumcised as Moses prescribed, they could not be saved.

We spent a number of days there, and in the course of them a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

but first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem and then all over Judea, and even to the heathen I preached that they must repent and turn to God and live as men who have repented should.

"We have had no letters about you from Judea," they answered, "and none of the brothers who have come here has reported or said anything against you.

Pray that I may escape from those in Judea who are disobedient, and that the help I am taking to Jerusalem may be well received by God's people,

I was going to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia and have you see me off for Judea.

I was still personally unknown to the Christian churches of Judea;

For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you in your turn had to bear the same ill-treatment from your neighbors as they did from the Jews,

For it is perfectly clear that our Lord sprang from the tribe of Judah, with reference to which Moses said nothing at all about priests.

But in his dissatisfaction with them he says, " 'See! the time is coming,' says the Lord, 'When I will conclude a new agreement with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and the brother of James, to those who have been called, who are dear to God the Father and have been kept through union with Jesus Christ;

But one of the elders said to me, "Do not cry! See! The lion who is of the tribe of Judah, of the line of David, has been victorious so that he can open the roll and break its seals."

12,000 from the tribe of Judah that were marked; 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben; 12,000 from the tribe of Gad;