Matthew 1:24
When Joseph awoke from sleep he did what the angel of the Lord told him. He took his wife,
When Joseph awoke from sleep he did what the angel of the Lord told him. He took his wife,
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18 The Birth of Jesus Christ Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
19 Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately.
20 When he had contemplated 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 as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
21 She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
22 This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled:
23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will name him Emmanuel,” which means“God with us.”
25 but did not have marital relations with her until she gave birth to a son, whom he named Jesus.
24 After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said,
25 “This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people.”
26 Birth Announcement of Jesus the Messiah In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
27 to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.
28 The angel came to her and said,“Greetings, favored one, the Lord is with you!”
29 But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.
30 So the angel said to her,“Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God!
31 Listen: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.
32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.
12 After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.
13 The Escape to Egypt After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,“Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”
14 Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt.
15 He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled:“I called my Son out of Egypt.”
19 The Return to Nazareth After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
20 saying,“Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”
21 So he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.
22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.
15 Eliud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,
16 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.
5 He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child.
6 While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.
7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
34 Mary said to the angel,“How will this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?”
35 The angel replied,“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God.
37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”
38 So Mary said,“Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.
39 Mary and Elizabeth In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,
7 Soon after these things, his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said,“Come to bed with me.”
15 When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another,“Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us.”
16 So they hurried off and located Mary and Joseph, and found the baby lying in a manger.
10 Even though she continued to speak to Joseph day after day, he did not respond to her invitation to go to bed with her.
11 One day he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants were there in the house.
33 So the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him.
19 When his master heard his wife say,“This is the way your slave treated me,” he became furious.
13 But the angel said to him,“Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you will name him John.
21 At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
51 Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decided.”