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I. The Infancy Narrative
Chapter 1
The Genealogy of Jesus. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
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Jesse the father of David the king. David became the father of Solomon, whose mother had been the wife of Uriah.
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Thus the total number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen generations; from David to the Babylonian exile, fourteen generations; from the Babylonian exile to the Messiah, fourteen generations. The Birth of Jesus.
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Such was his intention when, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her.
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And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed [him], crying out, “Son of David, have pity on us!”
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He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry,
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All the crowd was astounded, and said, “Could this perhaps be the Son of David?”
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And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.”
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Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “[Lord,] Son of David, have pity on us!”
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The crowd warned them to be silent, but they called out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!”
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The crowds preceding him and those following kept crying out and saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna in the highest.”
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When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wondrous things he was doing, and the children crying out in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant
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The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” The Question About David’s Son.
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saying, “What is your opinion about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They replied, “David’s.”
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He said to them, “How, then, does David, inspired by the Spirit, call him ‘lord,’ saying:
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If David calls him ‘lord,’ how can he be his son?”
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He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry?
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On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.”
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And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he kept calling out all the more, “Son of David, have pity on me.”
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Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is to come! Hosanna in the highest!”
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And when Jesus saw that [he] answered with understanding, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to ask him any more questions. The Question About David’s Son.
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As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said, “How do the scribes claim that the Messiah is the son of David?
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David himself, inspired by the holy Spirit, said: ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies under your feet.”’
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David himself calls him ‘lord’; so how is he his son?” [The] great crowd heard this with delight. Denunciation of the Scribes.
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to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.