The ancestry of Jesus Christ, who was descended from David, who was descended from Abraham.

and Jacob of Joseph, the husband of Mary, who was the mother of Jesus called Christ.

So the whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen, and from David to the Babylonian Exile, fourteen, and from the Babylonian Exile to the Christ, fourteen.

Now these were the circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ. Mary, his mother, was engaged to Joseph, but before they were married it was found that she was about to become a mother through the influence of the holy Spirit.

So he called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Christ was to be born.

Now when John heard in prison of what the Christ was doing, he sent by his disciples

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

Then he warned the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

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.

"What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

And you must not let men call you master, for you have only one master, the Christ.

For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am the Christ,' and many will be misled by them.

"If anyone says to you at that time, 'Look! here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it,

But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I charge you, on your oath, by the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the son of God."

saying, "Show us you are a prophet, you Christ! Who was it that struck you?"

So when they gathered to ask this, Pilate said to them, "Which one do you want me to release for you, Barabbas, or Jesus, the so-called Christ?"

Pilate said to them, "Then what am I to do with Jesus, the so-called Christ?" They all said, "Have him crucified!"

The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ.

And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and he would not let the demons speak, because they knew that he was Christ.

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to him, "You are the Christ."

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink, on the ground that you belong to Christ, I tell you, will certainly not fail to be repaid.

As Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he answered them and said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

If anyone says to you at that time, 'Look! Here is the Christ!' or 'Look! There he is!' do not believe it.

But Jesus was silent and made no answer. The high priest again questioned him and said to him, "Are you the Christ, the son of the Blessed One?"

Let this Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see it and believe!" And the men who were crucified with him abused him.

As all this aroused people's expectations, and they were all wondering in their hearts whether John was the Christ,

And demons came out of many people, crying out, "You are the Son of God!" But he reproved them and forbade them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.

And he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God!"

But he said to them, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

"If you are the Christ, tell us so." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe me,

while the people stood looking on. Even the leading councilors jeered at him, and said, "He has saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Christ, his Chosen One!"

One of the criminals who were hanging there, abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us too!"

Did not the Christ have to suffer thus before entering upon his glory?"

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day,

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming??e who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!"

"Come, here is a man who has told me everything I ever did! Do you suppose he is the Christ?"

And here he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities really have found that he is the Christ?

But then, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."

But many of the people believed in him, and said, "Will the Christ show more signs when he comes than this man has shown?"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from the descendants of David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so frankly!"

She said to him, "Yes, Master, I do indeed believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

he foresaw the resurrection of the Christ and told of it, for he was not deserted in death and his body was not destroyed.

"Therefore the whole nation of Israel must understand that God has declared this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."

Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,

But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk!"

it was in this way that God fulfilled what he by all the prophets foretold that his Christ must suffer.

and he will send Jesus, your destined Christ.

you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.

The kings of the earth stood by, And the rulers assembled Against the Lord and against his Christ.'

and they did not for a single day stop teaching and preaching in the Temple and in private houses the good news of Jesus, the Christ.

Philip reached the city of Samaria, and proclaimed the Christ to them.

But when they believed Philip's message of the good news of the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, men and women alike accepted baptism.

But Saul grew more and more powerful, and bewildered the Jews who lived in Damascus by his proofs that Jesus was the Christ.

Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you! Get up, and make your bed!" And he got up immediately.

He has sent his message to Israel's descendants, and made the good news of peace known to them through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of us all.

And he directed that they should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on there a few days.

So if God had given them the same gift that we received when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, to be able to interfere with God?"

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

She did this for a number of days, until Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her!" And it came out instantly.

explaining them and showing that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. "Jesus," he said, "of whom I am telling you, is the Christ!"

By the time Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was absorbed in preaching the message, emphatically assuring the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

for he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, and showed from the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and sent for Paul and heard what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus.

if the Christ was to suffer and by being the first to rise from the dead was to proclaim the light to our people and to the heathen."

preaching the Kingdom of God to them and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ openly and unhindered.

Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,

including you who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ??7 to all those in Rome whom God loves, who are called to be his people; God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world.

on that Day when, as the good news I preach teaches, God through Christ Jesus judges what men have kept secret,

It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.

but by his mercy they are made upright for nothing, by the deliverance secured through Christ Jesus.

So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For when we were still helpless, at the decisive moment Christ died for us godless men.

But God proves his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

More than that, we actually glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom we owe our reconciliation.

But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

so that just as sin had reigned through death, mercy might reign through uprightness and bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?

If we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

for we know that Christ, once raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more hold on him.

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.

But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.

But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.

and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.