- His Genealogy (1:1-17)
- His Birth (1:18 -- 2:12)
- His Sojourn in Egypt (2:13-23)
Matthew Chapter 1 NLT
1 This is a record of the ancestors of
Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David and of Abraham :
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac
was the father of Jacob. Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.
3 Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah
(whose mother was Tamar). Perez was the father of Hezron. Hezron was the father
of Ram.
4 Ram was the father of Amminadab.
Amminadab was the father of Nahshon. Nahshon was the father of Salmon.
5 Salmon was the father of Boaz (whose
mother was Rahab). Boaz was the father of Obed (whose mother was Ruth). Obed
was the father of Jesse.
6 Jesse was the father of King David.
David was the father of Solomon (whose mother was Bathsheba, the widow of
Uriah).
7 Solomon was the father of Rehoboam.
Rehoboam was the father of Abijah. Abijah was the father of Asa.
8 Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat.
Jehoshaphat was the father of Jehoram. Jehoram was the father of Uzziah.
9 Uzziah was the father of Jotham. Jotham
was the father of Ahaz. Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah.
10 Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh.
Manasseh was the father of Amon. Amon was the father of Josiah.
11 Josiah was the father of Jehoiachin and
his brothers (born at the time of the exile to Babylon).
12 After the Babylonian exile: Jehoiachin
was the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel.
13 Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud.
Abiud was the father of Eliakim. Eliakim was the father of Azor.
14 Azor was the father of Zadok. Zadok was
the father of Akim. Akim was the father of Eliud.
15 Eliud was the father of Eleazar. Eleazar
was the father of Matthan. Matthan was the father of Jacob.
16 Jacob was the father of Joseph, the
husband of Mary. Mary gave birth to Jesus, who is called the Messiah.
17 All those listed above include fourteen
generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the Babylonian exile,
and fourteen from the Babylonian exile to the Messiah.
18 This is how Jesus the Messiah was born.
His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage
took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power
of the Holy Spirit.
19 Joseph, her fiancé, was a good man and
did not want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement
quietly.
20 As he considered this, an angel of the
Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do
not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived
by the Holy Spirit.
21 And she will have a son, and you are to
name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
22 All of this occurred to fulfill the
Lord’s message through his prophet:
23 “Look! The virgin will conceive a child!
She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God
is with us.’”
24 When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel
of the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife.
25 But he did not have sexual relations
with her until her son was born. And Joseph named him Jesus.
Matthew Chapter 2 NLT
1 Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,
during the reign of King Herod. About that time some wise men from eastern
lands arrived in Jerusalem, asking,
2 “Where is the newborn king of the Jews?
We saw his star as it rose, and we have come to worship him.”
3 King Herod was deeply disturbed when he
heard this, as was everyone in Jerusalem.
4 He called a meeting of the leading
priests and teachers of religious law and asked, “Where is the Messiah supposed
to be born?”
5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they said, “for
this is what the prophet wrote:
6 ‘And you, O Bethlehem in the land
of Judah, are not least among the ruling cities of Judah, for a ruler will come
from you who will be the shepherd for my people Israel.’ ”
7 Then Herod called for a private meeting
with the wise men, and he learned from them the time when the star first
appeared.
8 Then he told them, “Go to Bethlehem and
search carefully for the child. And when you find him, come back and tell me so
that I can go and worship him, too!”
9 After this interview the wise men went
their way. And the star they had seen in the east guided them to Bethlehem. It
went ahead of them and stopped over the place where the child was.
10 When they saw the star, they were filled
with joy!
11 They entered the house and saw the child
with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened
their treasure chests and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
12 When it was time to leave, they returned
to their own country by another route, for God had warned them in a dream not
to return to Herod.
13 After the wise men were gone, an angel
of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the
child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return,
because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
14 That night Joseph left for Egypt with
the child and Mary, his mother,
15 and they stayed there until Herod’s
death. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “I called
my Son out of Egypt.”
16 Herod was furious when he realized that
the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and
around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, based on the wise men’s
report of the star’s first appearance.
17 Herod’s brutal action fulfilled what God
had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:
18 “A cry was heard in Ramah— weeping and
great mourning. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted, for
they are dead.”
19 When Herod died, an angel of the Lord
appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
20 “Get up!” the angel said. “Take the
child and his mother back to the land of Israel, because those who were trying
to kill the child are dead.”
21 So Joseph got up and returned to the
land of Israel with Jesus and his mother.
22 But when he learned that the new ruler
of Judea was Herod’s son Archelaus, he was afraid to go there. Then, after
being warned in a dream, he left for the region of Galilee.
23 So the family went and lived in a town
called Nazareth. This fulfilled what the prophets had said: “He will be called
a Nazarene.”