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The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah
This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:
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and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,
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Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.
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But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
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Jesus Heals the Blind and the Mute
As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
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He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
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All the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”
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A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
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Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
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The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
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The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
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But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
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“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” “The son of David,” they replied.
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He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,
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If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”
