'Born' in the Bible

After Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of King Herod, wise men arrived in Jerusalem from the east

and asked, "Where is the one who was born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."

He called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah was to be born.

I tell all of you with certainty, among those born of women no one has appeared who is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom from heaven is greater than he.

The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him. How terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

Now the woman happened to be a Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

For the Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

because he will be great in the Lord's presence. He will never drink wine or any strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.

Today your Savior, the Lord Messiah, was born in the City of David.

I tell you, no one has ever been born who is greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"

Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Don't be astonished that I told you, "All of you must be born from above.'

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"

and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

His parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

Ever since creation it has never been heard that anyone healed the eyes of a man who was born blind.

They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."

"At this time Moses was born. He was beautiful in the sight of God, and for three months he was cared for in his father's house.

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia but raised in this city and educated at the feet of Gamaliel in the strict ways of our ancestral Law. I am as zealous for God as all of you are today.

Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." Immediately those who were about to examine him stepped back, and the tribune was afraid when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had tied him up.

That is, it is not merely the children born through natural descent who were regarded as God's children, but it is the children born through the promise who were regarded as descendants.

Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate

and finally he was seen by me, as though I were born abnormally late.

But when God, who set me apart before I was born and who called me by his grace, was pleased

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,

This is being said as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. The one woman, Hagar, is from Mount Sinai, and her children are born into slavery.

By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after he was born, because they saw that he was a beautiful child and were not afraid of the king's order.

For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish by the living and everlasting word of God.

These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,

No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God's seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God.

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.

because everyone who is born from God has overcome the world. Our faith is the victory that overcomes the world.

We know that the person who has been born from God does not go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one cannot harm them.

Its tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky and knocked them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it could devour her child when it was born.