"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined" (Isaiah 9:2).

"Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God" (I John 4:2).

"Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us" (Luke 1:78).

"The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham" (Matthew 1:1).

These opening words of the New Testament identify this "book of the generation [literally `genesis'] of Jesus Christ" as telling of the wonderful fulfillment of the promise to both Abraham and David of a very special Son.

"He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not" (John 1:10).