The Gospels, one chapter at a time

¹The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

²Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

³Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

¹Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

²“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”

³When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

¹In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

²“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

³For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

¹Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

²When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

³The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

¹Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

²He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

³“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

¹“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

²Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

³But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

¹“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

²For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

³Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

¹When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

²Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

³Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

¹He entered into a boat and crossed over, and came into his own city.

²Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

³Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”

¹He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

²Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;

³Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;

¹When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

²Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

³and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

¹At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

²But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

³But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:

¹On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.

²Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach.

³He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

¹At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

²and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”

³For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

¹Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

²“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

³He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

¹The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

²But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

³In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

¹After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.

²He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

³Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.

¹In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”

²Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them

³and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

¹When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

²Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

³Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

¹“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

²When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

³He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

¹When they came near to Jerusalem and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

²saying to them, “Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.

³If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

¹Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying,

²“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,

³and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

¹Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

²saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.

³All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

¹Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.

²But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”

³As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

¹“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

²Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

³Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

¹When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples,

²“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

³Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

¹Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

²They bound him, led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

³Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

¹Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

²Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky and came and rolled away the stone from the door and sat on it.

³His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

¹The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

²As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:

³the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’”

¹When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home.

²Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

³Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.

¹He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there whose hand was withered.

²They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

³He said to the man whose hand was withered, “Stand up.”

¹Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

²He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

³“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow.

¹They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

²When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs.

³He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,

¹He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

²When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

³Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended at him.

¹Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

²Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

³(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

¹In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself and said to them,

²“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days and have nothing to eat.

³If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.”

¹He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with power.”

²After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

³His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

¹He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.

²Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

³He answered, “What did Moses command you?”

¹When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples

²and said to them, “Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him and bring him.

³If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and immediately he will send him back here.”

¹He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

²When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

³They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

¹As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!”

²Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down.”

³As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

¹It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception and kill him.

²For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”

³While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar and poured it over his head.

¹Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders, scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

²Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”

³The chief priests accused him of many things.

¹When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

²Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

³They were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”

¹Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

²even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

³it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

¹Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

²This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

³All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.

¹Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

²during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

³He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

¹Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

²for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

³The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

¹Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

²He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.

³He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

¹Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands.

²But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

³Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

¹After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

²A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

³When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.

¹Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,

²and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

³and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others who served them from their possessions.

¹He called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

²He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.

³He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money. Don’t have two tunics each.

¹Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come.

²Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

³Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

¹When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

²He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

³Give us day by day our daily bread.

¹Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

²But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.

³Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

¹Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

²Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

³I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

¹When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

²Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

³Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

¹Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

²The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

³He told them this parable:

¹He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

²He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

³“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

¹He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

²It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

³Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

¹He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,

²saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.

³A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

¹He entered and was passing through Jericho.

²There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

³He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.

¹On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

²They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”

³He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

¹He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.

²He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.

³He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

¹Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

²The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

³Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

¹The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

²They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

³Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

¹But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

²They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

³They entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body.

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

²The same was in the beginning with God.

³All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

¹The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

²Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.

³When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”

¹Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

²He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

³Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

¹Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

²(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),

³he left Judea and departed into Galilee.

¹After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.

³In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;

¹After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.

²A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.

³Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.

¹After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

²Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

³His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

¹but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

²Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

³The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,

¹As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

²His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

³Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.

¹“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

²But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

³The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

¹Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

²It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

³The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

¹Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

²So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

³Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

¹Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

²During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

³Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,

¹“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

²In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

³If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

¹“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

²Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

³You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

¹“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

²They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

³They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.

¹Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

²even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

³This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

¹When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.

²Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.

³Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

¹So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him.

²The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.

³They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.

¹Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

²Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

³Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.

¹After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.

²Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.

³Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.” They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.

¹The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

²until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

³To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about God’s Kingdom.