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The Genealogy of
Jesus Christ
1:1The
book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of
David, the son of Abraham.
2Abraham was
the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob,
and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
3and Judah the father of
Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of
Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,[1]
4and Ram the father of
Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and
Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5and
Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the
father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of
Jesse, 6and Jesse the
father of David the king.
And David was the father of Solomon by
the wife of Uriah, 7and
Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the
father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,[2]
8and Asaph the father of
Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram,
and Joram the father of Uzziah,
9and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham
the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
10and Hezekiah the father
of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos,[3]
and Amos the father of Josiah,
11and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his
brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
12And after
the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father
of Shealtiel,[4]
and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
13and Zerubbabel the
father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim,
and Eliakim the father of Azor,
14and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the
father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud,
15and Eliud the father of
Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and
Matthan the father of Jacob, 16and
Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of
whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
17So all the
generations from Abraham to David were fourteen
generations, and from David to the deportation to
Babylon fourteen generations, and from the
deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen
generations.
The Birth of
Jesus Christ
18Now the
birth of Jesus Christ[5]
took place in this way. When his mother Mary had
been betrothed[6]
to Joseph, before they came together she was found
to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
19And her husband Joseph,
being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame,
resolved to divorce her quietly.
20But as he considered these things, behold,
an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream,
saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take
Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in
her is from the Holy Spirit. 21She
will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus,
for he will save his people from their sins.”
22All this took place to
fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
23“Behold, the
virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”
(which means, God with us). 24When
Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the
Lord commanded him: he took his wife,
25but knew her not until
she had given birth to a son. And he called his name
Jesus. |
