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."

Now all this occurred to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:

"The virgin will become pregnant and have a son, and they will call Him Immanuel" -- which means "God with us."

Now when King Herod heard of it, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

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

'And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, You are not at all the least among the leading places of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler, who will shepherd my people Israel.'"

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.

Then Jerusalem and all Judea, even the whole Jordan district, continued to go out to him

I am baptizing you in water to picture your repentance. But He that is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry His shoes. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire;

His winnowing-fork is in His hand, and He will clean out His threshing-floor and store His wheat in His barn, but He will burn up the chaff with fire that never can be put out."

and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for the Scripture says: "'He will give His angels directions about you, And they will bear you up on their hands, so you will never strike your foot against a stone.'"

Again the devil took him up on a very high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and their splendor,

and said to Him, "Every bit of this I will give to you, if you will fall on your knees and worship me."

He said to them, "Come! Follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men."

Then He went all over Galilee, as He continued teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or malady among the people.

So the news about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were sick with various diseases, especially those who were suffering with torturing diseases; and he cured them.

"Blessed are the mourners, for they will be comforted.

"Blessed are the lowly in mind, for they will possess the land.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for being and doing right, for they will be completely satisfied.

"Blessed are those who show mercy, for they will have mercy shown them.

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called God's sons.

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.

Keep on rejoicing and leaping for ecstasy, for your reward will be rich in heaven; for this is the way they persecuted the prophets who lived before you.

People do not light a lamp and put it under a peck-measure but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all that are in the house.

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.

Whoever, therefore, breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices them and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as great in the kingdom of heaven.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness far surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.

"You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You must not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will have to answer to the court.'

But I say to you: "Everyone who harbors malice against his brother, will have to answer to the court, and whoever speaks contemptuously to his brother, will have to answer to the supreme court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You cursed fool? will have to pay the penalty in the pit of torture.

Be quick to come to terms with your opponent while you are on the road to court with him, so that he may not turn you over to the judge and the judge turn you over to the officer, and you be put in prison.

I solemnly say to you, you will never get out at all until you have paid the last penny.

So if your right eye causes you to do wrong, pluck it out of your way; for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

And if your right hand causes you to do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way, for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

But I tell you not to swear at all, either by heaven, for it is God's throne,

to prove that you are sons of your Father in heaven, for He makes His sun rise on bad as well as good people, and makes the rain come down on doers of right and of wrong alike.

For if you practice loving only those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax-collectors practice that?

"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.

so that your deed of charity may be secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

But whenever you, follower of mine, pray, you must go to your most private place, shut the door, and pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

And whenever you pray, you must not keep on repeating set phrases, as the heathen do, for they suppose that they will be heard in accordance with the length of their prayers,

Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.

"For if you forgive others their shortcomings your heavenly Father will forgive you, too.

But if you do not forgive others, your heavenly Father will not forgive your shortcomings either.

so that your fasting may be seen, not by men but by your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

For wherever your treasure is, there too your heart will be.

"The eye is the very lamp of the body. If then your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.

So I tell you, stop worrying about your life, as to what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear. Is not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothes?

but I tell you, not even Solomon, in all his gorgeous splendor, was ever dressed up like a single one of these.

Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you with little faith?

For the heathen are greedily pursuing all such things; and surely your heavenly Father well knows that you need them all.

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

So never worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries of its own. Each day has evil enough of its own."

For exactly as you criticize others, you will be criticized, and in accordance with the measure that you give to others, it will be measured back to you.

How can you say to your brother, 'Let me get that tiny speck out of your eye,' while all the time there is a girder in your own?

You hypocrite, first get the girder out of your own eye, and then you can see well enough to get the tiny speck out of your brother's eye.

"Keep on asking, and the gift will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and the door will open to you.

For everyone who keeps on asking, receives, and everyone who keeps on seeking, finds, and to the one who keeps on knocking, the door will open.

What human father among you, when his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake?

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your heavenly Father give what is good to those who keep on asking Him?

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven.

Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, was it not in your name that we prophesied, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many wonder-works?'

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

"So everyone who listens to my words and practices their teaching, will be like a prudent man who built his house on a rocky foundation.

And anyone who listens to my words and does not practice their teaching, will be like an imprudent man who built his house on sand.

He said to him, "I will come and cure him."

But the captain answered, "I am not fit for you to come under my roof, but simply speak the word, and my servant-boy will be cured.

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,

while the heirs of the kingdom will be turned out into the darkness outside, where they will be weeping and grinding their teeth."

When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were under the power of demons, and at a mere word He drove the spirits out, and cured all who were sick,

And a scribe came up and said to Him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you may go."

And He said to them, "Be gone!" And they went out of the men and got into the hogs, and suddenly the whole drove, in a stampede, rushed over the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

And the men who fed them fled, and went off to the town, and told it all, and what occurred to the two men who were under the power of demons.

And suddenly all the town turned out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw Him, they begged Him to move on and leave their neighborhood.

And all at once some men were bringing to Him a paralyzed man, lying on a couch. And because He saw their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "Cheer up, my child, your sins are forgiven."

While He was at table in the house many tax-collectors and notorious sinners came in and took their seats at table with Jesus and His disciples.

And when He heard it, He said, "It is not well, but sick people that have to send for a doctor.

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.

And just as He was saying these things to them, an official came up and fell on his knees before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand upon her and she will come to life."

For she kept saying to herself, "If I can only touch His coat, I will get well."

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.

And the news about her spread all over that country.

But they went out and spread the news about Him all over that country.

Jesus kept visiting all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing every sort of sickness and ailment.

As you go into his house, wish it well,

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

I tell you, the punishment on the day of judgment will be lighter for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

Be on your guard against men, for they will turn you over to the courts and will flog you in their synagogues,

and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and the heathen.

But when they turn you over to the courts, you must not worry at all about how or what you ought to speak, for it will be given you at that hour what you ought to speak.

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.

And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

But whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to a different one. For I solemnly say to you, you will not cover all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man returns.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

So you must never be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be uncovered, nor a secret that will not be known.

Even the very hairs on your head have all been counted by God.