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The Gospel of Matthew

Matthew

1 ¹This is the written record of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham, beginning with the family line:

²Abraham fathered* Isaac; and Isaac fathered Jacob; and Jacob fathered Judah and his brethren; ³and Judah fathered Perez and Zerah (their mother was Tamar); and Perez fathered Hezron; and Hezron fathered Ram; ⁴and Ram fathered Amminadab; and Amminadab fathered Nahshon; and Nahshon fathered Salmon; ⁵and Salmon fathered Boaz (their mother was Rahab); and Boaz fathered Obed (their mother was Ruth); and Obed fathered Jesse; ⁶and Jesse fathered King David. And David fathered Solomon (whose mother had been Uriah’s wife); ⁷and Solomon fathered Rehoboam; and Rehoboam fathered Abijah; and Abijah fathered Asa; ⁸and Asa fathered Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat fathered Jehoram; and Jehoram fathered Uzziah; ⁹and Uzziah fathered Jotham; and Jotham fathered Ahaz; and Ahaz fathered Hezekiah; ¹⁰and Hezekiah fathered Manasseh; and Manasseh fathered Amon; and Amon fathered Josiah; ¹¹and Josiah fathered Jehoiachin and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon. ¹²And after the exile to Babylon, Jehoiachin fathered Shealtiel; and Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel; ¹³and Zerubbabel fathered Abiud; and Abiud fathered Eliakim; and Eliakim fathered Azor; ¹⁴and Azor fathered Zadok; and Zadok fathered Akim; and Akim fathered Eliud; ¹⁵and Eliud fathered Eleazar; and Eleazar fathered Matthan; and Matthan fathered Jacob;

¹⁶and Jacob fathered Joseph, who was the husband of Mary, from whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ [the Messiah]*.

¹⁷So all the generations from Abraham up to David total fourteen; and from David up to the Babylonian exile total fourteen; and from the Babylonian exile up to Christ total fourteen.

¹⁸The birth of Jesus Christ came about like this: his mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph, but before they slept together she became pregnant by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁹Joseph, her husband-to-be, was a good man, and since he didn’t want to shame her publicly, he decided to quietly break the engagement.

The Gospel of John

John

1 ¹In the beginning the Word already was. The Word was together with God, and the Word was God. ²From the very beginning he was with God. ³ Everything came into existence through him; nothing was made without him. ⁴In him was life, the life that is the light of humanity. ⁵The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not snuffed it out. *

⁶A man named John, sent by God, ⁷came as a witness to tell people of this light so that all might believe through him. ⁸He himself was not the light, but came to witness to the light. ⁹This light—the true light—was coming into the world to enlighten everyone. ¹⁰Though he was in the world, and even though the world was made through him, the world didn’t know him. ¹¹He came to his own native land, but his own people didn’t receive him. ¹²But to those who actually did receive him—those who really put their trust in him—he gave the right to become God’s children ¹³These are the children born not by natural means or human desires, but born of God. ¹⁴The Word took on humanity as a man living among us, and we saw his glory—that of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.

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