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1 JESUS WAS BORN at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of Herod. After his birth astrologers from the east arrived in Jerusalem, asking,
2 'Where is the child who is born to be king of the Jews? We observed the rising of his star, and we have come to pay him homage.'
3 King [NAME] was greatly perturbed when he heard this; and so was the whole of Jerusalem.
4 He called a meeting of the chief priests and lawyers of the Jewish people, and put before them the question: 'Where is it that the Messiah is to be born?'
5 'At Bethlehem in Judaea', they replied; and they referred him to the prophecy which reads:
6 'Bethlehem in the land of Judah, you are far from least in the eyes of the rulers of Judah; for out of you shall come a leader to be the shepherd of my people Israel.'
7 Herod next called the astrologers to meet him in private, and ascertained from them the time when the star had appeared.
8 He then sent them on to Bethlehem, and said, 'Go and make a careful inquiry for the child. When you have found him, report to me, so that I may go myself and pay him homage.'
9 They set out at the king's bidding; and the star which they had seen at its rising went ahead of them until it stopped above the place where the child lay.
10 At the sight of the star they were overjoyed.
11 Entering the house, they saw the child with [NAME] his mother, and bowed to the ground in homage to him; then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts: gold, frankincense, and [NAME].
12 And being warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned home another way.
13 After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to [NAME] in a dream, and said to him, 'Rise up, take the child and his mother and escape with them to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the child to do away with him.
14 So [NAME] rose from sleep, and taking mother and child by night he went away with them to Egypt,
15 and there he stayed till Herod's death. This was to fulfil what the Lord had declared through the prophet: 'I called my son out of Egypt.'
16 When [NAME] saw how the astrologers had tricked him he fell into a passion, and gave orders for the massacre of all children in Bethlehem and its neighbourhood, of the age of two years or less, corresponding with the time he had ascertained from the astrologers.
17 So the words spoken through Jeremiah the is prophet were fulfilled:
18 'A voice was heard in Rama, wailing and loud laments; it was [NAME] weeping for her children, and refusing all consolation, because they were no more.'
19 The time came that [NAME] died; and an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to [NAME] in Egypt and said to him,
20 'Rise up, take the child and his mother, and go with them to the land of Israel, for the men who threatened the child's life are dead.'
21 So he rose, took mother and child with him, and came to the land of Israel.
22 Hearing, however, that [NAME] had succeeded his father [NAME] as king of Judaea, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee;
23 there he settled in a town called [NAME]. This was to fulfil the words spoken through the prophets: 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'
1 ABOUT THIS TIME [NAME] Baptist appeared as a preacher in the Judaean wilderness;
2 his theme was: 'Repent; for the kingdom of Heaven is upon you!'
3 It is of him that the prophet [NAME] spoke when he said, 'A voice crying aloud in the wilderness, "Prepare a way for the Lord; clear a straight path for him." '
4 [NAME]'s clothing was a rough coat of camel's hair, with a leather belt round his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5 They flocked to him from Jerusalem, from all Judaea, and the whole Jordan valley,
6 and were baptized by him in llie River Jordan, confessing their sins.
7 When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism he said to them: 'You vipers' brood! Who warned you to escape from the coming retribution?
8 Then prove your repentance by the fruit it bears;
9 and do not presume to say to yourselves, "We have [NAME] for our father." I tell you that God can make children for [NAME] out of these stones here.
10 Already the axe is laid to the roots of the trees; and every tree that fails to produce good fruit is cut down and thrown on the fire.
11 I baptize you with water, for repentance; but the one who comes after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to take off his shoes; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
12 His shovel is ready in his hand and he will winnow his threshing-floor; the wheat he will gather into his granary, but he will burn the chaff on a fire that can never go out.'
13 Then [NAME] arrived at the Jordan from Galilee, and came to [NAME] to be baptized by him.
14 [NAME] tried to dissuade him. 'Do you come to me?' he said; 'I need rather to be baptized by you.'
15 [NAME] replied, 'Let it be so for the present; we do well to conform in this way with all that God requires.' [NAME] then allowed him to come.
16 After baptism [NAME] came up out of the water at once, and at that moment heaven opened; he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove to alight upon him;
17 and a voice from heaven was heard saying, 'This is my Son, my Beloved, on whom my favour rests.'
1 JESUS WAS THEN led away by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil.
2 For forty days and nights he fasted, and at the end of them he was famished.
3 The tempter approached him and said, 'If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.'
4 [NAME] answered, 'Scripture says, "Man cannot live on bread alone; he lives on every word that God utters." '
5 The devil then took him to the Holy City and set him on the parapet of the temple.
6 'If you are the Son of God,' he said, 'throw yourself down; for [NAME] says, "He will put his angels in charge of youand they will support you in their arms, for fear you should strike your foot against a stone." '
7 [NAME] answered him, 'Scripture says again you are not to put the Lord your God to the test." '
8 Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their glory.
9 'All these', he said, 'I will give you, if you will only fall down and do me homage.'
10 But [NAME] said, 'Begone, Satan; Scripture says, "You shall do homage to the Lord your God and worship him alone." '
11 Then the devil left him, and angels appeared and waited on him.
12 When he heard that [NAME] had been arrested, [NAME] withdrew to [NAME];
13 and leaving [NAME] he went and settled at Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee, in the district of Zebulun and Naphtali.
14 This was in fulfilment of the passage in the prophet [NAME] which tells of
15 'the land of [NAME], the land of Naphrali, the road by the sea, the land beyond Jordan, heathen [NAME]', and says:
16'The people that lived in darkness saw a great light; Light dawned on the dwellers in the land of death's dark shadow.'