So the whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen; from David to the exile to Babylon is fourteen; and from the exile to Babylon to Christ is fourteen.

"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her is by the Holy Spirit; and she will bear a son, and you are to call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

Now when Joseph awoke from his sleep he did as the angel of the Lord had directed him, and took his wife home,

Thereupon Herod sent secretly for the Magi, and found out from them the time when the star appeared.

As soon as Herod saw that he had been mocked by the Magi, he was furious. He sent and put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and all the neighborhood who were two years old or under, in accordance with the date which he had ascertained from the Magi.

But when John saw that many of the Pharisees and Sadducees were coming for baptism, he said: "O brood of vipers! Who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

At that very time Jesus was on his way from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be baptized by him.

while a voice from heaven said, "This is my son, the beloved, In whom I delight."

Jesus answered him, "It is written, Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."

From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near."

And his fame spread throughout all Syria. They brought all the sick to him, those who were suffering from various diseases and troubles??emoniacs, epileptics, paralytics??nd he healed them.

Great crowds followed him from Galilee, from the ten towns, from Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan.

"In solemn truth I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until all has taken place.

"Come to terms with your opponent quickly, while you are yet with him on the way [to the court], to prevent your opponent from handing you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and so you be thrown into prison.

"I tell you truly that you would certainly not get out from there until you had paid back the last cent.

And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

And if your right hand entices you into sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

"But let your word be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the Evil One.

"Give to him who asks, and from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One; For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen.

"Or how will you say to your brother, 'Permit me to remove the mote from your eye,' when, behold, the beam is in your own eye?

"Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.

"Then I will tell them plainly, "'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of iniquity.'

As he went down from the mountain, great crowds followed him.

"I tell you that many will come from the east and from the west, and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

Now there was, at some distance from them, a herd of many swine feeding;

He answered, "Go!" So they came out of the men, and went into the swine, and behold! the entire herd rushed headlong down from the cliff into the sea, and perished in the water.

At once all the citizens came out to meet Jesus; and when they had seen him, they begged him to move away from their country.

"Can the friends fast at a wedding-feast," said Jesus, "so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom has been taken from them, and then they will fast.

"No one ever sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old cloak. If they did, the patch put on to fill it up would tear away from the cloak, and the rent be made worse.

But Jesus turned and saw her and said, "Be of good courage, daughter, your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that hour.

And as he went on from thence two blind men followed Jesus, crying, "Have pity on us, Son of David!"

"And whoever will not receive you or listen to your words, as you go out from that house or that city, shake off the very dust from your feet.

"From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by storm.

At that time Jesus answered and said: "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and wary, and hast revealed them to the children.

So when Jesus knew it, he withdrew from that place, and numbers of people followed him.

"A good man out of his good treasure brings forth good; and from his evil treasure a bad man brings out evil.

Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees accosted him. "Teacher," they said, "we want to see some sign from you."

"The Queen of the South will rise in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and lo! a greater than Solomon is here!

"For whoever holds, to him shall more be given, and he shall have abundance; but whoever does not hold, from him shall be taken away even what he holds.

"The slaves of the owner went to him and said: "'Was it not good seed, sir, that you sowed in your field? From whence then, do you get tares?'

"So will it be at the end of the age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from the righteous, and fling them into the furnace of fire.

After Jesus had finished these parables, he withdrew from that place,

This kept them from believing in him. Wherefore Jesus said, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and among his own family."

"This man is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead. That is why miraculous powers are working through him."

When Jesus heard it he went away privately by boat to a lonely spot; but the crowds heard about it, and followed him on foot from the cities.

But the boat was already a long way from shore, buffeted by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

"Come," said Jesus. Then Peter got down from the boat and walked on the water to go to Jesus.

Then some Scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

This is a people that honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart??nd that is what defiles a man.

"True, Lord," she said, "but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."

Then Jesus answered her. "O woman, great is your faith. It shall be for you even as you desire." And from that hour her daughter was healed.

Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came to him, and in order to test him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

While they were going down from the mountain, Jesus laid a command on them. "Speak to no man about the vision," he said, "until after the Son of man has been raised from the dead."

Then Jesus rebuked the evil spirit, and it came out of him; and the boy was cured from that very hour.

"Because of your little faith," he answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that if you have faith the size of a mustard-seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from this place to that!' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

As they continued going from place to place in Galilee, Jesus said to them. "The Son of man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men;

"Indeed he does," answered Peter. But on Peter's entering the house, Jesus forestalled him, saying. "How does it seem to you, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect customs or taxes??rom their own people, or from aliens?"

And when he replied, "From aliens," Jesus said: "Then their people go free.

"If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, than to keep both hands or both feet and be cast into the everlasting burning.

"If your eye keeps causing you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with only one eye, than to keep both eyes and be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

"So will my heavenly Father do to you also, unless from your heart each one of you forgive his brother."

It came about after Jesus had finished these teachings, that he removed from Galilee, and went to that part of Judea which lay across the Jordan.

"Have you not read." he answered, "that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said,

"Moses," said Jesus, "permitted you to divorce your wives on account of the hardness of your hearts, but from the beginning it was not so.

"For there are eunuchs who have been such from birth; others who have been made such by men; and others who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of God. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."

So he laid his hands upon them, and departed from that place.

"and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; and on the third day he will rise from the grave."

And the crowds answered, "This is the Prophet Jesus, from Nazareth, in Galilee."

and when he saw a solitary fig tree beside the road, he went to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, "Let no man gather fruit from you forever." And at once the fig tree withered away.

John's baptism, whence was it, from heaven or from man?" So they began debating about it among themselves.

"If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' But if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet."

"I tell you that for this reason the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation that does produce the fruit of it.

No one could answer him a word, nor did any one dare from that day to ask him another question.

"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;

"that upon your heads may come every drop of innocent blood spilt upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the just, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar.

for then shall be a time of great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never shall be again.

For just as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

"But immediately after the tribulation of those days, "The sun will be darkened, The moon will not shed her light, The stars will fall from the sky, And the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And he will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather his elect together from the four winds, from utmost heaven to utmost earth.

"Learn from the fig tree, her parable; when her branches are become soft, and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near;

So take away the talent from him, and give it to the man who has ten talents.

(For to every one who has, it shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him who has not shall be taken away even what he has.)

"and all the nations will be gathered in his presence. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats;

"Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

"Then he will say to those also at his left hand. 'Depart from me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;

and from that time he kept looking for a chance to betray him.

"Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the Covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Then Jesus said to them. "This very night even you will all stumble and fall away from me; for it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

"If they all stumble and fall away from you," answered Peter, "I will never do so!"

Then he went forward a short distance, and fell on his face and prayed. "O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."

Barely had he spoken these words when Judas, one of the Twelve, appeared, accompanied by a great crowd of men with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

"I am He," Jesus answered; "yet I tell you that from this time on you will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming upon the clouds of heaven."

"You who were going to destroy the Temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

"He saved other," they said, "himself he cannot save. He, the King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him!

Now from noon darkness fell upon the whole land, until three o'clock in the afternoon.

And lo, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two, from the top to the bottom;

And there were present several women who were looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from a Galilee, ministering to him.

Now therefore give order to have the sepulcher securely guarded until the third day, for fear his disciples may come and steal him away, and then tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead'; and so the last error will be worse than the first."