Then the governor&#8217;s soldiers took Jesus into the governor&#8217;s residence<n id="1" /> and gathered the whole cohort<n id="2" /> around him.

&#8220;He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down<n id="1" /> now from the cross, we will believe in him!

Just then<n id="1" /> the temple curtain<n id="2" /> was torn in two, from top to bottom. The<n id="3" /> earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.p>

and placed it<n id="1" /> in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock.<n id="2" /> Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance<n id="3" /> of the tomb and went away.

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember,<n id="1" /> I am with you<n id="2" /> always, to the end of the age.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Let both grow together until the harvest. At<n id="1" /> harvest time I will tell the reapers, &#8220;First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then<n id="2" /> gather<n id="3" /> the wheat into my barn.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

Jesus<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;I tell you the truth:<n id="2" /> In the age when all things are renewed,<n id="3" /> when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging<n id="4" /> the twelve tribes of Israel.

Which of the two did his father&#8217;s will?&#8221; They said, &#8220;The first.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Jesus said to them, &#8220;I tell you the truth,<n id="2" /> tax collectors<n id="3" /> and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

<p class="bodytext">So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ,<n id="1" /> fourteen generations.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together,<n id="1" /> she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

He<n id="1" /> sent them to Bethlehem and said, &#8220;Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.&#8221;

After listening to the king they left, and once again<n id="1" /> the star they saw when it rose<n id="2" /> led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

He stayed there until Herod<n id="1" /> died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: &#8220;<b><i>I called my Son out of Egypti>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

saying, &#8220;Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child&#8217;s life are dead.&#8221;

But when he heard that Archelaus<n id="1" /> was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod,<n id="2" /> he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.

For he is the one about whom Isaiah the prophet had spoken:<n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>The voicei>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>of one shouting in the wilderness,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>Prepare the way for the Lord, makei>b><n id="3" /> <i><b>his paths straightb>.i>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

After<n id="1" /> Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the<n id="2" /> heavens<n id="3" /> opened<n id="4" /> and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove<n id="5" /> and coming on him.

and said to him, &#8220;If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, &#8216;<b><i>He will command his angels concerning youi>b>&#8217;<n id="1" /> and &#8216;<b><i>with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stonei>b>.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />

I<n id="1" /> tell you the truth,<n id="2" /> until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter<n id="3" /> will pass from the law until everything takes place.