This is a record of the life of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Jacob fathered Joseph, the husband of Mary, who was the mother of Jesus, who is called the Messiah.

So all the generations from Abraham to David totaled fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon totaled fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah there were fourteen generations.

Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah happened in this way. When his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, before they lived together she was discovered to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

He called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah was to be born.

Now when John heard in prison about the activities of the Messiah, he sent a message by his disciples

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God!"

Then he strictly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.

"What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?" They told him, "David's."

Nor are you to be called "Teachers,' because you have only one teacher, the Messiah!

because many will come in my name and say, "I'm the Messiah,' and they will deceive many people.

"At that time, if anyone says to you, "Look! Here's the Messiah!' or "There he is!', don't believe it,

But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest told him, "I command you by the living God to tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God!"

saying, "Prophesy to us, you Messiah! Who hit you?"

So when the people had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which man do you want me to release for you Barabbas, or Jesus who is called "the Messiah'?"

Pilate asked them, "Then what should I do with Jesus, who is called the Messiah?" They all said, "Let him be crucified!"

This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.

When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.

Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah!" Jesus sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to the Messiah will never lose his reward."

While Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Messiah is David's son?

"At that time, if anyone says to you, "Look! Here is the Messiah!', or, "Look! There he is!' don't believe it,

But he kept silent and didn't answer at all. The high priest asked him again, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?"

Let the Messiah, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, since seeing is believing!" Even the men who were crucified with him kept insulting him.

Today your Savior, the Lord Messiah, was born in the City of David.

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

Now the people were filled with expectation, and all of them were wondering if John was perhaps the Messiah.

Even demons came out of many people, screaming, "You are the Son of God!" But Jesus rebuked them and ordered them not to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.

He asked them, "But who do you say I am?" "God's Messiah," Peter replied.

Then he asked them, "How can people say that the Messiah is David's son?

They said, "If you are the Messiah, tell us."

They began to accuse him, "We found this man corrupting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that he is the Messiah, a king."

Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. The leaders were mocking him by saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if he is the Messiah of God, the chosen one!"

Now one of the criminals hanging there kept insulting him, "You are the Messiah, aren't you? Save yourself"and us!"

The Messiah had to suffer these things and then enter his glory, didn't he?"

He told them, "This is how it is written: the Messiah was to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."

They asked him, "Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?"

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Anointed One!" (which is translated "Messiah").

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, "I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called "the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

"Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?"

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

We know where this man comes from. But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."

However, many in the crowd believed in him. They kept saying, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than this man has done, will he?"

while others were saying, "This is the Messiah!"

But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

"Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."

Then the crowd answered him, "We have learned from the Law that the Messiah remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that through believing you may have life in his name.

he looked ahead and spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah: "He was not abandoned to Hades, and his flesh did not experience decay.'

"Therefore, let all the people of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!"

Peter answered them, "Every one of you must repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the Holy Spirit as a gift.

However, Peter said, "I don't have any silver or gold, but I'll give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus the Messiah from Nazareth, walk!"

This is how God fulfilled what he had predicted through the voice of all the prophets that his Messiah would suffer.

so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord and so that he may send you Jesus, whom he appointed long ago to be the Messiah.

The kings of the earth take their stand, and rulers meet together against the Lord and against his Messiah.'

Every day in the Temple and from house to house they kept teaching and proclaiming that Jesus is the Messiah.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began to preach the Messiah to the people.

But when Philip proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and about the name of Jesus the Messiah, men and women believed and were baptized.

But Saul grew more and more persuasive, and continued to confound the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this man was the Messiah.

Peter told him, "Aeneas, Jesus the Messiah is healing you. Get up and put away your mat!" At once he got up,

He has sent his word to the descendants of Israel and brought them the good news of peace through Jesus the Messiah. This man is the Lord of everyone.

So Peter ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah. Then they asked him to stay there for several days.

Now if God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, who was I to try to stop God?"

When John was finishing his work, he said, "Who do you think I am? I'm not the Messiah. No, but he is coming after me, and I'm not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet.'

We certainly believe that it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, that we are saved, just as they are."

who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

They went as far as Mysia and tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them,

so they bypassed Mysia and went down to Troas.

She kept doing this for many days until Paul became annoyed, turned to her and told the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus the Messiah to come out of her!" And it came out that very moment.

He explained and showed them that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead: "This very Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Messiah."

But when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself entirely to the word as he emphatically assured the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

He successfully refuted the Jews in public and proved by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.

Some days later, Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and listened to him talk about faith in Jesus the Messiah.

that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead and would bring light both to our people and to the gentiles."

He continued to preach about the kingdom of God and to teach boldly and freely about the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

From: Paul, a servant of Jesus the Messiah, called to be an apostle and set apart for God's gospel,

and was declared by the resurrection from the dead to be the powerful Son of God according to the spirit of holiness Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.

You, too, are among those who have been called to belong to Jesus the Messiah.

To: Everyone in Rome, loved by God and called to be holy. May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus the Messiah for all of you, because the news about your faith is being reported throughout the world.

on that day when God, through Jesus the Messiah, will judge people's secrets according to my gospel.

God's righteousness through the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah for all who believe. For there is no distinction among people,

By his grace they are justified freely through the redemption that is in the Messiah Jesus,

whom God offered as a place where atonement by the Messiah's blood would occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past.

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, the Messiah died for the ungodly.

But God demonstrates his love for us by the fact that the Messiah died for us while we were still sinners.

Not only that, but we also continue to boast about God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom we have now been reconciled.

But God's free gift is not like Adam's offense. For if many people died as the result of one man's offense, how much more have God's grace and the free gift given through the kindness of one man, Jesus the Messiah, been showered on many people!

For if, through one man, death ruled because of that man's offense, how much more will those who receive such overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness rule in life because of one man, Jesus the Messiah!

so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.

Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah Jesus were baptized into his death?

Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.

Now if we have died with the Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him,