So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen, from David to the Babylonian Exile fourteen, from the Babylonian Exile to Christ fourteen.

And she will have a son, and you must name Him Jesus, for it is He who is to save His people from their sins."

So when Joseph awoke from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord directed him, and took her as his wife;

Now when Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Judea in the days of King Herod, stargazers came from the East to Jerusalem

Then Herod secretly sent for the stargazers, and found out from them exactly the time the star appeared.

Then Herod, because he saw that a trick had been played on him by the stargazers, was very angry, and sent and slaughtered all the boy babies in Bethlehem and in all that neighborhood, from two years down, in accordance with the time which he had found out from the stargazers.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming?

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him.

and a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I am delighted!"

But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone can man live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

From that time Jesus continued to preach and say, "Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is near."

And as He was going on from that point, He saw two others, brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, getting their nets in order; and He called them.

So great crowds followed Him, from Galilee and Decapolis, from Jerusalem and Judea, and from the other side of Jordan.

I have not come to set them aside but to fill them up to the brim. For I solemnly say to you, heaven and earth would sooner pass away than the dotting of an 'i' or the crossing of a 't' from the law, until it all becomes in force.

But your way of speaking must be a simple 'Yes' or 'No.' Anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

If anyone, whoever he may be, keeps on begging you, give to him; if anyone wants to borrow from you, do not turn him away.

"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

And do not let us be subjected to temptation, but save us from the evil one.

You must recognize them by their fruits. People do not pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?

And then I will say to them openly, 'I never knew you at all. Go away from me, you who practiced doing wrong.'

When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed Him.

I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their seats at the feast with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, 'in the kingdom of heaven,

When He reached the other side, in the district of Gadara, there faced Him two men, who were under the power of demons, who were just coming out from the tombs. They were such terrors that nobody could pass that way.

Now there was not far from there a large drove of hogs feeding.

And as He was passing along from there, He saw a man named Matthew in his seat at the tax-collector's desk, and He said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed Him.

Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn, can they, as long as they have the bridegroom with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Nobody sews a patch of brand-new goods on an old coat, for such a patch would tear away from the coat, and the hole would be bigger than ever.

And Jesus, on turning and seeing her, said, "Cheer up, my daughter! Your faith has cured you." And from that moment the woman was well.

As Jesus was passing along from there, two blind men followed Him, shouting, "Do pity us, O Son of David!"

And whoever will not welcome you, or listen to your words, on leaving that place shake off from your feet its very dust.

What I speak to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ears, you must proclaim from housetops.

But as they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the desert to gaze at? A reed that is tossed to and fro by the wind?

And from the days of John the Baptist until the present moment the kingdom of heaven has been continuously taken by storm, and those who take it by storm are seizing it as a precious prize.

At that time Jesus said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing these matters from wise and learned men, and for revealing them to little children.

Put on my yoke, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls,

The queen of the south will rise with the leaders of this age at the judgment and condemn them, for she came from the farthest limits of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

For to anyone who has, more will be given, and his supply will overflow, but from anyone who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

And the farmer's slaves came up to him and said, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where did the wild wheat plants come from?'

So it will be at the close of the age; the angels will go out and separate the wicked from the upright,

and said to his attendants, "This is John the Baptist. He has risen from the dead, and that is why the powers are at work through him."

When Jesus heard it, He left there in a boat for a quiet place, to be alone. And when the crowds heard of it, they followed Him on foot from the towns.

but the boat was already a long way from shore, and was being tossed by the waves, for the wind was against them.

Then some Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, and asked Him,

"'This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far, far away from me;

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they make the man foul.

And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and pleaded, saying, "Do pity me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is suffering horrors from a demon."

She said, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs usually eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."

The Pharisees and the Sadducees came up, and to test Him asked Him to show them a spectacular sign from heaven.

And I, yes I, tell you, your name from now on is to be Peter, Rock, and on a massive rock like this I will build my church, and the powers of the underworld shall never overthrow it.

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my way, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me, for this view of yours is not from God but from men."

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud cast its shadow over them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I am delighted. Keep on listening to Him!"

And as they were going down the mountain, Jesus warned them, saying, "Never mention to anyone what you have seen until the Son of Man is raised from the dead."

He answered them, "Because you have so little faith! For I solemnly say to you, if you have the faith that is living like a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move over from here to yonder,' and it will move over, and nothing will be impossible for you to do."

He answered, "Yes." When Jesus reached home -- He got there ahead of Simon -- He asked him, "What do you think about it, Simon? From whom do civil rulers collect duties or taxes, from their own citizens or from aliens?"

He answered, "From aliens." Jesus said to him, "So their own citizens are exempt,

A curse on the world for such influences to do wrong! For they must come, but a curse on the man from whom these influences come!

"Again, I tell you, if only two of you on earth agree on what they pray for, they will get it from my Father in heaven.

He answered them, "It was because of your moral perversity that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but it was not so from the beginning.

But Jesus said, "Let the little children alone, and stop preventing them from coming to me, for to such as these the kingdom of heaven belongs."

And most of the crowd spread their coats along the road, but some were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them along the road.

And the crowds that went in front of Him and followed Him shouted: "Welcome the Son of David! Blessed be He who comes in the name of the Lord; Welcome Him from on high!"

Where did John's baptism come from? From heaven, or from men?" They argued it out among themselves in this way, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

But if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the people, for they all consider John a prophet."

"This, I tell you, is why the kingdom will be taken away from you, and given to a people who will pay a fair rent for it.

And not one could answer Him a word, and from that day on no one ever dared to ask Him any more questions.

Therefore, I am going to send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill -- even crucify -- and some you will flog in your synagogues and chase from city to city,

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

"And immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not shed its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the sky will be shaken.

And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His chosen people from the four points of the compass, from one end of the sky to the other.

"For it is just like a man who was going on a long journey from his homeland, who called to him his slaves and turned his property over to them.

So take the thousand dollars away from him and give it to him who has ten thousand.

For the man who has will have more given to him, even till it overflows, but from the man who has nothing even what he has will be taken away.

and all the nations will be gathered before him, and He will separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats,

Then the King will say to those at His right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take possession of the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.

"Then He will say to those at His left, 'Be gone from me, you who are now cursed, to the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

So from that time he kept looking for a good opportunity to turn Him over to them.

But after I am raised from the dead, I will go back to Galilee to meet you."

Even while He was still speaking, here came Judas, one of the Twelve, and with him a crowd, with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the elders of the people.

and saying, "You who would tear down the temple and build another in three days, save yourself! If you are really the Son of God, come down from the cross."

"He saved others but He cannot save Himself. He is the king of Israel, is He? Well, let Him come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him.

Now from twelve o'clock till three, darkness covered the whole land.

And at once the curtain of the sanctuary was torn from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were split,

Now several women were there looking on from a distance, who accompanied Jesus from Galilee to care for Him,

Although it was now evening, a rich man named Joseph, from Arimathea, who was himself a disciple of Jesus,

Issue an order then to have the tomb closely guarded, so that His disciples cannot come and steal Him and tell the people that He rose from the dead, and the last deception be worse than the first."

Now there had been a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the boulder back and remained sitting upon it.

Then run and tell His disciples, 'He has risen from the dead, and is going back to Galilee ahead of you; you will see Him there.' This is my message to you."

So off they hurried from the tomb, frightened and yet in ecstasy, and ran to break the news to His disciples.

And people from all over Judea and everybody in Jerusalem kept on going out to him and being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

But a time is coming when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

No one sews a patch of brand-new goods on an old coat; or, if he does, the patch tears away, the new from the old, and the hole becomes bigger than ever.

So Jesus retired with His disciples to the sea, and a vast throng of people followed Him from Galilee, and from Judea,

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from the other side of the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon -- yes, a vast throng of people, as they kept hearing of the great things that He was doing, came to Him.

So He told His disciples to keep a little boat ready for Him all the time, to prevent the crowds from crushing Him.

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept saying, "He is under the spell of Beelzebub and by the help of the prince of the demons He drives out the demons."

As soon as He got out of the boat, a man under the power of a foul spirit and from the tombs met Him.

On catching a glimpse of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell down on his knees before Him,

And He said to her, "My daughter, your faith has cured you. Go in peace and be free from your disease."