THE book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Jesse begot David the king: David the king begot Solomon of her who had been the wife of Uriah:

So all the generations from Abraham till David are fourteen generations: and from David till the removal to Babylon are fourteen generations: and from the removal to Babylon till the Christ are fourteen generations.

But while he was thinking of these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take home Mary your wife; for that which is begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit.

And as Jesus was departing thence, two blind men followed him, crying out and saying: Son of David, have mercy on us.

But he said to them: Have you not read what David did, when he and those who were with him were hungry?

And all the people were amazed, and said: Is not this the son of David?

And behold, a woman of Chanaan came out from those borders, and cried to him, saying: Have mercy on me, Lord, son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.

And behold, two blind men, sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying: Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David.

And the multitude charged them to be silent. But they cried the more, saying: Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David.

And the multitudes that went before, and that followed after, cried, saying: Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, their anger was aroused,

saying: What think you of the Christ? whose son is he? They said to him: The son of David.

He said to them: How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?

And he said to them: Did you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those who were with him?

And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say: Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me!

And many rebuked him, that he should be silent. But he cried out yet the more: Son of David, have mercy on me!

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our Father David. Hosanna in the highest.

And Jesus, as he was teaching in the temple, answered and said: How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?

For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies thy footstool.

David himself, then, calls him Lord; and how is he his son? And the great multitude heard him with pleasure.

to a virgin be trothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary.

He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of David his father;

and he has raised up for us, in the house of David his servant, a horn of salvation,

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, (for he was of the house and family of David,).

For there is born for you this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

son of Meleah, son of Mainan, son of Mattatha, son of Nathan, son of David,

And Jesus answered and said to them: Have you not read even that which David did, when he was hungry him self, and those who were with him,

And he cried out and said: Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

And those who went before rebuked him, that he should be silent. But he cried so much the more: Son of David, have mercy on me.

But he said to them: How say they that the Christ is the son of David?

Even David himself says, in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,

David, therefore, calls him Lord; and how is he his son?

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the posterity of David, and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?

Brethren, it was necessary for this scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit had before spoken by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who was a guide to those who took Jesus:

For David speaks with reference to him: I saw the Lord always in my presence: for he is at my right hand, that I should not be moved.

Brethren, I may say to you plainly of the patriarch David, that he died, and was buried, and his sepulcher is with us to this day.

For David has not ascended into the heavens; but he himself says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,

And when they heard it, they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said: Lord, thou art God, who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things that are in them; who, by the mouth of David thy servant, didst say,

which our fathers, who were with Joshua, received by succession, and brought into the land possessed by the Gentiles, whom God continued to drive out from the face of our fathers till the -days of David,

And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; to whom he gave this testimony: I have found David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.

But that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: I will give you the sure mercies of David.

For David, after serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption.

After this I will return, and build again the tabernacle of David which has fallen down; and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up;

concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the posterity of David according to the flesh,

Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God counts righteousness without works, saying:

And David says: Let their table become a trap, and a net, and a snare, and a recompense to them;

Remember that Jesus Christ, of the posterity of David, was raised from the dead, according to my gospel;

again, he determines a certain day, saying in David, after so long a time, To-day, as it is said, To day, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

And what further shall I say? For the time would fail me, were I to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah, of David also and Samuel, and of the prophets,

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens;

And one of the elders said to me: Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has the power to open the book and its seven seals.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, morning star.