Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

But he said to them, “How is it that they say that the Christ is David’s son?

Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?”

One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying, “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”

and said to them, “Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,

Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,

Demons also came out of many, crying out, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king.”

The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”