AN account of the birth of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

and Jesse begat David the king. And David begat Solomon by the wife of Uriah,

All the generations therefore, from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations; and from David to the Babylonian exile, fourteen generations; and from the Babylonian exile to the Christ, 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 Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit,

And as Jesus was departing thence two blind men followed him, crying and saying, Have mercy on us, Son of David!

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

And all the multitudes wondered and said, Is this the Son of David?

And behold, a woman of Canaan from those regions came out and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is badly affected with a demon.

And behold two blind men who sat by the way, hearing that Jesus was passing by cried, saying, Have mercy on us Lord, Son of David!

And the multitude charged them to be still; but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us Lord, Son of David!

and the multitudes that went before, and those that followed, cried saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest [heavens]!

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful works which he performed, and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! they were displeased,

saying, What do you think of the Christ? whose son is he? They said to him, David's.

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, Have you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry? both he and those with him?

And hearing that Jesus was the Nazarene, he cried, saying, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.

And many charged him to be still. But he cried much more, Son of David, have mercy on me.

Blessed is the kingdom of our father David, which is coming! Hosanna in the highest [heavens]!

And Jesus answered and said, teaching in the temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?

David himself said, by the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.

David himself calls him Lord, and whence is he his son? And the great multitude heard him gladly.

to a virgin espoused 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 shall give him the throne of David his father,

and raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David his servant;

And Joseph went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

For to you was born to-day in the city of David, a Saviour who is the anointed Lord.

the son of Meleas, the son of Mennas, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

And Jesus answered and said to them, Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those with him?

And he cried, saying, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.

And those going before charged him to be still; but he cried much more, Son of David, have mercy on me.

And he said to them, How do they say that the Christ is the son of David?

And David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on 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 offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

And in those days Peter standing up in the midst of the brothers, said??he multitude together was about a hundred and twenty??16 Men and brothers, it was necessary that the Scripture should be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who became a guide to them that apprehended Jesus;

For David says of him, I saw the Lord always before me, he is on my right hand that I should not be moved;

Men and brothers, let me speak to you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

For David ascended not to heaven, but he says, The Lord said to my lord, Sit on my right hand

who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise vain things?

which also our fathers receiving it in succession brought with Joshua into the possession of the nations, whom God expelled before the face of our fathers till the days of David;

and removing him, he raised up for them David for a king, of whom also he said and testified, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.

And that he raised him from the dead never more to return to destruction, he said thus; I will give you the sure promises of David.

For David, having in his generation served the will of God, fell asleep, and was gathered to his fathers and saw destruction;

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

PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to the gospel of God,??2 which he promised by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,??3 concerning his Son born of the posterity of David as to the flesh,

As David describes the blessedness of the man to whom the Lord accounts righteousness without works,

And David says, Let their table become a trap and a snare and an offense and a stumbling block to them;

Remember Jesus Christ raised from the dead, a descendant of David, according to my gospel,

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

And why should I say more? For time would fail me to relate of Gideon and Barak, and Sampson and Jepthah, and David and Samuel and the prophets,

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy One, the True, he that has the key of David, he that opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open,

And one of the elders said to me, Weep not; behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered, he is opening the book and its seven seals.

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