and Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, at the time of the carrying away of Babylon.

Now Jesus having been born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, behold magi from the east arrived at Jerusalem, saying,

But Herod the king having heard of it, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;

And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judaea; for thus it is written through the prophet:

And thou Bethlehem, land of Juda, art in no wise the least among the governors of Juda; for out of thee shall go forth a leader who shall shepherd my people Israel.

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.

And they having heard the king went their way; and lo, the star, which they had seen in the east, went before them until it came and stood over the place where the little child was.

Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to thee the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child to destroy it.

And he was there until the death of Herod, that that might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the country round the Jordan,

whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he shall thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and shall gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

But Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffers him.

and behold, a voice out of the heavens saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight.

But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth.

and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on their hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone.

Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.

and having left Nazareth, he went and dwelt at Capernaum, which is on the sea-side in the borders of Zabulon and Nepthalim,

And his fame went out into the whole of Syria, and they brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have become insipid, wherewith shall it be salted? It is no longer fit for anything but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot by men.

Nor do men light a lamp and put it under the bushel, but upon the lamp-stand, and it shines for all who are in the house.

For verily I say unto you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all come to pass.

Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill; but whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the judgment.

If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something against thee,

Verily I say to thee, Thou shalt in no wise come out thence till thou hast paid the last farthing.

Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt not commit adultery.

But if thy right eye be a snare to thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

And if thy right hand be a snare to thee, cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

It has been said too, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a letter of divorce.

Again, ye have heard that it has been said to the ancients, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt render to the Lord what thou hast sworn.

But I say unto you, Do not swear at all; neither by the heaven, because it is the throne of God;

nor by the earth, because it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

But let your word be Yea, yea; Nay, nay; but what is more than these is from evil.

Ye have heard that it has been said, Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.

Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy.

For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

And if ye should salute your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? Do not also the Gentiles the same?

But thou, when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does;

so that thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render it to thee.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render it to thee.

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

so that thou mayest not appear fasting unto men, but to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who sees in secret shall render it to thee.

For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are ye not much more excellent than they?

But which of you by carefulness can add to his growth one cubit?

Be not therefore careful, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we put on?

for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.

Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Allow me, I will cast out the mote from thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine eye?

Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of the eye of thy brother.

Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask of him a loaf of bread, will give him a stone;

Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter in through it.

For narrow the gate and straitened the way that leads to life, and they are few who find it.

Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied through thy name, and through thy name cast out demons, and through thy name done many works of power?

and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.

and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his doctrine,

And he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, I will; be cleansed. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

For I also am a man under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my bondman, Do this, and he does it.

And when Jesus heard it, he wondered, and said to those who followed, Verily I say unto you, Not even in Israel have I found so great faith.

But I say unto you, that many shall come from the rising and setting sun, and shall lie down at table with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens;

but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

And Jesus said to the centurion, Go, and as thou hast believed, be it to thee. And his servant was healed in that hour.

And when the evening was come, they brought to him many possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were ill;

But the men were astonished, saying, What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?

And there met him, when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, two possessed by demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding dangerous, so that no one was able to pass by that way.

And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Son of God? hast thou come here before the time to torment us?

and the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.

And he said to them, Go. And they, going out, departed into the herd of swine; and lo, the whole herd of swine rushed down the steep slope into the sea, and died in the waters.

But they that fed them fled, and went away into the city and related everything, and what had happened as to those possessed by demons.

And behold, the whole city went out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to go away out of their coasts.

But the crowds seeing it, were in fear, and glorified God who gave such power to men.

And Jesus, passing on thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, called Matthew, and says to him, Follow me. And he rose up and followed him.

And it came to pass, as he lay at table in the house, that behold, many tax-gatherers and sinners came and lay at table with Jesus and his disciples.

And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat with tax-gatherers and sinners?

But Jesus hearing it, said, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.

But go and learn what that is I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous men but sinners.

Nor do men put new wine into old skins, otherwise the skins burst and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.

But when the crowd had been put out, he went in and took her hand; and the damsel rose up.

And the fame of it went out into all that land.

Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it unto you.

And their eyes were opened; and Jesus charged them sharply, saying, See, let no man know it.

But they, when they were gone out, spread his name abroad in all that land.

But as these were going out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed by a demon.

And the demon having been cast out, the dumb spake. And the crowds were astonished, saying, It has never been seen thus in Israel.

But the Pharisees said, He casts out the demons through the prince of the demons.

And having called to him his twelve disciples, he gave them power over unclean spirits, so that they should cast them out, and heal every disease and every bodily weakness.

These twelve Jesus sent out when he had charged them, saying, Go not off into the way of the nations, and into a city of Samaritans enter ye not;

Heal the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons: ye have received gratuitously, give gratuitously.

But into whatsoever city or village ye enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there remain till ye go forth.

And as ye enter into a house salute it.

And if the house indeed be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in judgment-day than for that city.

But when they deliver you up, be not careful how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given to you in that hour what ye shall speak.

It is sufficient for the disciple that he should become as his teacher, and the bondman as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?

What I say to you in darkness speak in the light, and what ye hear in the ear preach upon the houses.

For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;