Book of the generation of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of Abraham.

and having sent them to Bethlehem, said, Go, search out accurately concerning the child, and when ye shall have found him bring me back word, so that I also may come and do him homage.

Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg anything of him.

But early in the morning, as he came back into the city, he hungered.

and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his garment.

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should beg for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

And they began to beg him to depart from their coasts.

But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, in the section of the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

and him that is in the field not return back to take his garment.

And the crowd crying out began to beg that he would do to them as he had always done.

as it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet: Voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

And the book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and having unrolled the book he found the place where it was written,

And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.

And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place, and the crowds sought after him, and came up to him, and would have kept him back that he should not go from them.

To every one that asks of thee, give; and from him that takes away what is thine, ask it not back.

And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to John of what ye have seen and heard: that blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized;

But as he was yet coming, the demon tore him and dragged him all together. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child and gave him back to his father.

But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.

And on the morrow as he left, taking out two denarii he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou shalt expend more, I will render to thee on my coming back.

And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind.

And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

And one of them, seeing that he was cured, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,

In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

And it came to pass on his arrival back again, having received the kingdom, that he desired these bondmen to whom he gave the money to be called to him, in order that he might know what every one had gained by trading.

and David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand

And Herod with his troops having set him at nought and mocked him, having put a splendid robe upon him, sent him back to Pilate.

From that time many of his disciples went away back and walked no more with him.

But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into it.

for some supposed, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy the things of which we have need for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.

And I will beg the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,

Many other signs therefore also Jesus did before his disciples, which are not written in this book;

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, Let another take his overseership.

to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, going back from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

how I held back nothing of what is profitable, so as not to announce it to you, and to teach you publicly and in every house,

But we beg to hear of thee what thou thinkest, for as concerning this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere spoken against.

back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.

But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.

I thought it necessary therefore to beg the brethren that they would come to you, and complete beforehand your fore-announced blessing, that this may be ready thus as blessing, and not as got out of you.

for before that certain came from James, he ate with those of the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision;

For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them;

yea, I ask thee also, true yokefellow, assist them, who have contended along with me in the glad tidings, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and take the lead among you in the Lord, and admonish you,

Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,

whom I have sent back to thee: but do thou receive him, that is, my bowels:

For every commandment having been spoken according to the law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Then I said, Lo, I come (in the roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.

But we are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving the soul.

Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back,

let him know that he that brings back a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud.

saying, What thou seest write in a book, and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

And I turned back to see the voice which spoke with me; and having turned, I saw seven golden lamps,

He that overcomes, he shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, and will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

And I saw on the right hand of him that sat upon the throne a book, written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?

And no one was able in the heaven, or upon the earth, or underneath the earth, to open the book, or to regard it.

And I wept much because no one had been found worthy to open the book nor to regard it.

And one of the elders says to me, Do not weep. Behold, the lion which is of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, has overcome so as to open the book, and its seven seals.

And when it took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each a harp and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the saints.

And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou hast been slain, and hast redeemed to God, by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

And the heaven was removed as a book rolled up, and every mountain and island were removed out of their places.

and having in his hand a little opened book. And he set his right foot on the sea, and the left upon the earth,

And the voice which I heard out of the heaven was again speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the little book which is opened in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the earth.

And I went to the angel, saying to him to give me the little book. And he says to me, Take and eat it up: and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey.

And I took the little book out of the hand of the angel, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth as honey, sweet; and when I had eaten it my belly was made bitter.

and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb.

The beast which thou sawest was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go into destruction: and they who dwell on the earth, whose names are not written from the founding of the world in the book of life, shall wonder, seeing the beast, that it was, and is not, and shall be present.

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is that of life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works.

And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

And nothing common, nor that maketh an abomination and a lie, shall at all enter into it; but those only who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

And behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.

And he says to me, See thou do it not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and the fellow-bondman of thy brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Do homage to God.

And he says to me, Seal not the words of the prophecy of this book. The time is near.

I testify to every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If any one shall add to these things, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

And if any one take from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.