The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

And Jesse, of David the king. David (by Uriah's widow), was the father of Solomon;

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."

for he was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes taught them.

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

"Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too?

And all the crowds were amazed, and he began to say, "Can this be the Son of David?"

Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."

And two blind men, sitting by the side of the road, heard that it was Jesus who was passing by, and cried out, "Have pity on us, Master, Son of David!"

But the crowd checked them, to make them keep still. They cried out all the louder, saying, "Master, have pity on us, Son of David!"

And the crowds who preceded and those who followed after him shouted again and again, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

But when the chief priests and the Scribes saw the wonderful works he did, and the boys who were shouting in the Temple Courts and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!"

"Master," they said, "Moses taught that if a man dies without issue, his brother is to marry the widow, and raise up a family for his brother.

"What is your opinion concerning the Christ? Whose Son is he?" "David's," they answered.

"How then, "he said, "does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

"If David calls him Lord, how can he be his Son?"

Then Jesus went again to the seaside, and the whole crowd kept coming to him, and he taught them.

He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men?

When the apostles had come back to Jesus, they told him all the things they had done, and all they had taught.

Hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began shouting and saying, "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!"

and many kept rebuking him and telling him to be quiet, but he only shouted much louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Blessed be the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna, in the highest!"

"Teacher, Moses taught us that if a man's brother die, and leave a wife behind him, but no child, that his brother is to marry the widow and to raise up a family for his brother.

While he was teaching in the Temple courts, Jesus in his turn asked. "How is it that the Scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

David himself said in the Holy Spirit, "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand until I make thy foes the footstool of thy feet.'

"David himself then calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" Now the great mass of the people were wont to listen to him with delight;

so that you may know the certainty of the story which you have been taught by the word of mouth.

to a maiden betrothed to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. Her name was Mary.

"He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. "And the Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David,

"And has raised up a mighty Deliverer for us In the house of his servant David,

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city if Nazareth, into Judea, to David's town of Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

"For unto you born this day in there is born in David's town a Saviour, who is the Anointed Lord.

Now there was in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon. He was righteous and devout, and was waiting for the consolation of Israel. The Holy Spirit was upon him.

son of Melea, son of Menna, son of Mattatha, son of Nathan, son of David,

"Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he and his followers were hungry?

He answered. "To you it is given to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of God; But all others are taught in parables so that seeing they shall not see, and hearing they shall not hear.

It happened he was praying in a certain place, and when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us how to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

"Then you will begin saying, 'But we have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets.'

He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

Then he shouted out, saying, "Jesus, son of David, take pity on me!"

Those who went ahead began to reprove him and to tell him to be still; but he kept clamorously shouting all the more, "Son of David, take pity on me!"

"How is it," he asked them, "that they say that Christ is David's son?

"for David himself say's in the book of the Psalms, "The Lord said to my Lord. Sit at my right hand,

"David therefore himself calls him 'Lord,' and how can he be his son?"

"It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all of them be taught of God. Every one who has listened to the father and learns from him, comes to me.

"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?"

so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

Jesus answered him. "I have spoken to all the world openly. I always taught in a synagogue and in the temple, places where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and in secret I have spoken nothing.

"Men and brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David in regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

Now there were, staying in Jerusalem. devout Jews from many and distant lands.

For David says of him. "I beheld the Lord always before my face; For he is at my right hand lest I be shaken.

"Men and brothers, I can speak plainly to you concerning the patriarch David, because he not only died and was buried, but his tomb is among us even to this very day.

For David did not ascend into heaven; but he himself said, "The Lord said to my Lord Sit thou on my right hand

"who saidest through the Holy Spirit, by the lips of thy servant David, our forefather. "Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples form futile plans?

"That tabernacle was brought in by our ancestors, in their turn, when they under Joshua entered on the possession of the nations whom God thrust out before them, until the days of David.

"David obtained favor with God, and asked permission to find a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.

Devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentations over him.

He was a devout man and God-fearing, and so were all his household. He gave many alms to the people, and constantly prayed to God.

And after the angel who was speaking to him was gone, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier who was in constant attendance upon him,

"Cornelius," they answered, "a captain, a devout man, and God-fearing, of whom the whole, Jewish nation speaks well, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to your message."

To them he said: "You know, yourselves, that it is illegal for a Jew to associate with or to visit one of another nation; but God has taught me that I should not call any man common or unclean. For this reason, when sent for, I came without demur.

and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church, and taught many people. And it was in Antioch that the disciples first received the name of "Christians."

After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also bore witness, when he said, "I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, and who will obey all my will.

"And as to his having raised him from among the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has said this, "I will give thee the holy and sure blessings of David.

"For David, after he had served his own generation according to the will of God, fell on sleep, and was gathered to his forefathers, and did see corruption;

When the congregation broke up, many of the Jews, and of the devout proselytes, followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked to them, and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

But the Jews urged on the devout women of high rank, and the leading citizens, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of the district,

"After these things I will return, And I will rebuild David's fallen tent; And I will build again its ruins, And I will set it up;

Some were persuaded and attached themselves to Paul and Silas, including a number of devout Greeks, and a large number of the leading women.

He argued in the synagogues with the Jews and the devout proselytes, and also daily in the market-place with those that met him there.

"I am a Jew," he said, "born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strict manner of the Law of our forefathers, ardent for God, even as you all are this day.

this gospel is concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of David's posterity in respect of his bodily nature,

Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions.

As David says. Let their table be made a snare and a trap, And a stumbling-block and a recompense unto them;

Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men.

For the very first thing I taught you was that I had myself been taught, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture,

for neither did I myself receive it from man, nor by man was I taught it, but by a revelation an apocalypse of Jesus Christ.

He, however, who is being taught in the message, should always share with his instructor in all the good things which he possesses.

if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus.

since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.

It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

So, brothers, stand fast, and hold fast the teachings which you have been taught by me, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

Always remember that Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, has been raised from the dead according to the gospel I proclaim.

In the days of his flesh, with better cries and weeping Jesus offered up prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him out of death; and he was heard because of his devout submission.

And what more shall I say? for time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, and of Jeptha; of David and Samuel and the prophets,

As to you, the unction you received from him remains ever in you, and you need no teaching from any one. But since his unction teaches you concerning all things and is true, and is no lie, abide continually in him, as it has taught you to do.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality.

Write also to the angel of the Church in Philadelphia. These things says He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens, and no one shall shut; and who shuts, and no one opens.

But one of the Elders said to me. "Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, and so can open the book with its seven seals."

"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning Star.