Here are the names of the people in the family line from which Jesus Christ came. He came from David's family. He came from Abraham's family.

She will have a baby son. Name him Jesus, because he will save his people from the wrong things they have done.'

The prophet said, `A young woman who has not slept with a man is going to have a baby son. His name will be Emmanuel. That means "God is with us." '

But he did not make love with her until her first son had been born. He named him Jesus.

Herod saw that the wise men had fooled him. He was very angry. He sent men to kill all the baby boys in the town of Bethlehem and around it. They killed all the boys who were two years old or less. Herod remembered what the wise men had told him about the time they first saw the star.

Jesus was walking by the sea of Galilee. There he saw two brothers, Simon who later was named Peter, and his brother Andrew. They were throwing a fishing net into the water. Their work was to catch fish.

Jesus went on from there and saw two other brothers, James and John. Their father's name was Zebedee. They were in the boat with their father mending their nets.

`Also you have heard this said to men long ago, "You must not make a promise in God's name and break it." And, "You must do for the Lord what you said you would do."

`But I tell you, do not make a promise in God's name. Do not use the name of heaven, because that is where God rules.

Do not use the name of earth, because that is where God rests his feet. Do not use the name of Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

You must mean "Yes" when you say "Yes". You must mean "No" when you say "No". To say anything more than that is wrong.'

So talk to your God like this: "Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

`No man can work for two masters. He will hate one and love the other. Or he will obey one and despise the other. You cannot work for both God and money.

`So, I tell you this. Do not be troubled about what you will eat or drink to keep alive. Do not be troubled about what you will wear on your body. Life itself is worth more than food, and the body is worth more than clothes.

`Look at the birds that fly in the air. They do not plant or cut or keep any food. Yet your Father in heaven feeds them. Are you not worth more than birds?

God dresses the grass in the fields so it looks nice. It is in the field one day and the next day it is put on the fire. If God dresses the grass like that, he cares much more that you have clothes to wear. You do not believe in God very much!

You are wrong, and yet you know how to give good things to your children. Much more, your Father in heaven will give good things to those who ask him.

Many people will say to me on that day, "Lord, Lord, did we not speak in your name? Did we not drive bad spirits out of people in your name? Did we not do big works in your name?"

Jesus came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarene people. There were graves in that place. Two men came from among the graves to meet him. They had bad spirits in them. They were so bad and strong that people feared to pass that way.

Jesus went on from there. He saw a man named Matthew. He was sitting at the place where people came to pay taxes. Jesus said to him, `Come with me.' Matthew stood up and went with him.

When Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him. They called out, `Son of David, help us!'

he names of the twelve apostles are: Simon, whose other name was Peter, and his brother Andrew, James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, James, the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose other name was Thaddaeus, Simon, the freedom fighter, and Judas Iscariot, the one who gave Jesus over to people who hated him.

Do not take a bag with you, and do not take two shirts, shoes, or a walking stick. The one who does the work should be given his food.

The one who learns should want to be like his teacher. And the servant should want to be like his master. If they say the master belongs to the devil, they will say it all the more about those who work for him.'

Are not two sparrows worth only a small amount of money? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father knowing about it.