DGEMs – Daily Gospel E-Messages

This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being an upright man and wanting to spare her disgrace, decided to divorce her informally. He had made

Roll of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham:  Abraham fathered Isaac ....  David fathered Solomon ....  Then the deportation to Babylon took place. Jacob fathered Joseph the husband of Mary; of her was born Jesus who is called Christ.  The sum of generations is therefore: fourteen from Abraham to David;

When all the people asked John, ‘What must we do, then?’ he answered, Anyone who has two tunics must share with the one who has none, and anyone with something to eat must do the same.’  There were tax collectors, too, who came for baptism, and these said to him, ‘Master, what must we do?’

As they came down from the mountain the disciples put this question to Jesus, ‘Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’  He replied, ‘Elijah is indeed coming, and he will set everything right again; however, I tell you that Elijah has come already and they did not recognise him but treated

Jesus spoke to the crowds: ‘What comparison can I find for this generation? It is like children shouting to each other as they sit in the market place: We played the pipes for you, and you wouldn't dance; we sang dirges, and you wouldn't be mourners.  ‘For John came, neither eating nor drinking, and they

Jesus spoke to the crowds: ‘In truth I tell you, of all the children born to women, there has never been anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.  Since John the Baptist came, up to this present time, the kingdom of Heaven has been