Matthew 1:18

New Century Version

This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. His mother Mary was engaged to marry Joseph, but before they married, she learned she was pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel.”

Job 14:4

No one can bring something clean from something dirty.

Job 15:14

“How can anyone be pure? How can someone born to a woman be good?

Matthew 1:1

This is the family history of Jesus Christ. He came from the family of David, and David came from the family of Abraham.

Matthew 12:46

While Jesus was talking to the people, his mother and brothers stood outside, trying to find a way to talk to him.

Matthew 2:11

They came to the house where the child was and saw him with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their gifts and gave him treasures of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Luke 1:25

“Look what the Lord has done for me! My people were ashamed of me, but now the Lord has taken away that shame.”

Luke 2:5

Joseph registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was now pregnant.

Deuteronomy 22:23

If a man meets a virgin in a city and has sexual relations with her, but she is engaged to another man,

Hebrews 10:5

So when Christ came into the world, he said: “You do not want sacrifices and offerings, but you have prepared a body for me.

Hebrews 7:26

Jesus is the kind of high priest we need. He is holy, sinless, pure, not influenced by sinners, and he is raised above the heavens.