The Temptation of Jesus

1 ^yThen Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the ^zwilderness to be tempted by the devil.

The Birth of Jesus Christ

18 ^qNow the birth of Jesus Christ¹ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been ^rbetrothed² to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child ^sfrom the Holy Spirit.

20 But as he considered these things, behold, an ^uangel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

John the Baptist Prepares the Way

1 ^aIn those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,