Luke 3:23

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.

He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

“This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.

David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”

Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;

These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.

Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers’ households. They were sought for in the fortieth year of the reign of David, and mighty men of valor were found among them at Jazer of Gilead.

The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, Yahweh’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face.

He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was something like the frame of a city to the south.

The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?”

They went out and preached that people should repent.

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son?

The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’

But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’ ”

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting.

from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,

from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,

from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,

Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.

When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”

the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,