Now when Jesus was born at Bethlehem, belonging to Judaea, in the days of king Herod, magicians from the East arrived at Jerusalem,

asking, "Where is the newly-born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose, and we have come to worship him."

so he gathered all the high priests and scribes of the people and made inquiries of them about where the messiah was to be born.

'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!'

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

The angel answered her, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you; hence what is born will be called holy, Son of God.

To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.

For there are days coming when the cry will be, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never have borne and the breasts that never have suckled!'

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm.

What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

Do not wonder at me telling you, 'You must all be born from above.'

The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

"Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."

and his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, for whose sin ??for his own or for his parents' ??was he born blind?"

Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight

and asked them, "Is this your son, the son you declare was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

His parents answered, "This is our son, and he was born blind; we know that.

So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner."

They retorted, "And so you would teach us ??you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him.

When a woman is in labour she is sorry, for her time has come; but when the child is born she remembers her anguish no longer, for joy that a human being has been born into the world:

"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

He who saw it has borne witness (his witness is true; God knows he is telling the truth), that you may believe.

It was at this period that Moses was born, a divinely beautiful child. For three months he was brought up in his father's house;

At that Moses fled; he became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he had two sons born to him.

It was passed on and borne in by our fathers as with Joshua they took possession of the territory of the nations whom God drove out before our fathers. So it remained down to the days of David.

At Lystra there was a man sitting, who was powerless in his feet, a lame man unable to walk ever since he was born.

"I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in all the strictness of our ancestral Law, ardent for God as you all are to-day.

The commander replied, "I had to pay a large sum for this citizenship." "But I was born a citizen," said Paul.

concerning his Son, who was born of David's offspring by natural descent

they are not all children of Abraham because they are descended from Abraham. No, it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned ??8 meaning that instead of God's children being the children born to him by natural descent, it is the children of the Promise who are reckoned as his true offspring.

Thus, as we have borne the likeness of material Man, so we are to bear the likeness of the heavenly Man.

but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.

but just as in the old days the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit, so it is still to-day.

but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise

He is the likeness of the unseen God, born first before all the creation ??16 for it was by him that all things were created both in heaven and on earth, both the seen and the unseen, including Thrones, angelic Lords, celestial Powers and Rulers; all things have been created by him and for him;

Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.

I appeal to you on behalf of my spiritual son born while I was in prison. It is Onesimus!

It was by faith that he celebrated the passover and performed the sprinkling by blood, so that the destroying angel might not touch Israel's first-born.

to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you,

You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God;

Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

when he was invested with honour and glory by God the Father, and when the following voice was borne to him from the sublime Glory, "This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I delight."

That voice borne from heaven we heard, we who were beside him on the sacred hill,

But those people! ??like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,

As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him.

for whatever is born of God conquers the world. Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world.

He who believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony within himself; he who will not believe God, has made God a liar by refusing to believe the testimony which God has borne to his Son.

We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him.

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.

I know that you are enduring patiently and have borne up for my sake and have not wearied.

his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and flung them to the earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was on the point of being delivered, to devour her child as soon as it was born.

Then I fell before his feet to worship him; but he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers, who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God" (for the testimony borne by Jesus is the breath of all prophecy).