Bible Verses About The Christ Jesus

And Joseph and his mother were wondering at the things spoken concerning him,

and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, `Lo, this one is set for the falling and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against--

(and also thine own soul shall a sword pass through) --that the reasonings of many hearts may be revealed.'

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

and the Devil said to him, `If Son thou art of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.'

And Jesus answered him, saying, `It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.'

And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

and the Devil said to him, `To thee I will give all this authority, and their glory, because to me it hath been delivered, and to whomsoever I will, I do give it;

thou, then, if thou mayest bow before me--all shall be thine.'

And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, `If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,

for it hath been written--To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

and--On hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou mayest dash against a stone thy foot.'

And Jesus answering said to him--`It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

And having ended all temptation, the Devil departed from him till a convenient season.

`The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.'

and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, `Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?'

And Jesus answering said unto them, `They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:

I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;

he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.

`And he who heard and did not, is like to a man having builded a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the stream brake forth, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house became great.'