Introduction
In Luke2:1-20, we are told the “Nativity story,” or the story in which Jesus is born. The story starts out stating that Augustus has required a registration of all the people.1 This is the first registration while Quirinus was governor of Syria.2 Each then went to their own town to be registered, including Joseph. Joseph traveled with Mary, who was with child, up to the city of David, Bethlehem. While they were in Bethlehem Mary gave birth to her firstborn son, and she laid him in the manger because there was no place for them in the inn.7 In the same region there were shepherds keeping watch over their flock.8 An angel appeared to the shepherds saying 11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior, who is Christ the lord. 13And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and …show more content…
(Luke 1:57-66) Also in Luke 1, is the announcement, to Zacharias, of the Messiah being born as a reference from the Old Testament, and the announcement to Mary that she would bare the Messiah. Eight days after Jesus is born he is circumcised and given the name Jesus. Forty days after his birth his parents present him to the priest, in the temple. “Since they are poor they cannot afford to sacrifice a lamb. It was all routine procedure-until Simeon and Anna see the child, and recognize their Messiah.” (Alexander PG516 Line24-27)
In Luke 1, during the announcement to Mary it is told that she is a virgin. Many, Including Mary herself, ask how this act would be possible. 35The angel answered Mary, “the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore, the child to be born will be called Holy-the son of God. 36And behold, your relative Elisabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. 37For nothing will be impossible with
In Luke2:1-20, we are told the “Nativity story,” or the story in which Jesus is born. The story starts out stating that Augustus has required a registration of all the people.1 This is the first registration while Quirinus was governor of Syria.2 Each then went to their own town to be registered, including Joseph. Joseph traveled with Mary, who was with child, up to the city of David, Bethlehem. While they were in Bethlehem Mary gave birth to her firstborn son, and she laid him in the manger because there was no place for them in the inn.7 In the same region there were shepherds keeping watch over their flock.8 An angel appeared to the shepherds saying 11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior, who is Christ the lord. 13And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and …show more content…
(Luke 1:57-66) Also in Luke 1, is the announcement, to Zacharias, of the Messiah being born as a reference from the Old Testament, and the announcement to Mary that she would bare the Messiah. Eight days after Jesus is born he is circumcised and given the name Jesus. Forty days after his birth his parents present him to the priest, in the temple. “Since they are poor they cannot afford to sacrifice a lamb. It was all routine procedure-until Simeon and Anna see the child, and recognize their Messiah.” (Alexander PG516 Line24-27)
In Luke 1, during the announcement to Mary it is told that she is a virgin. Many, Including Mary herself, ask how this act would be possible. 35The angel answered Mary, “the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore, the child to be born will be called Holy-the son of God. 36And behold, your relative Elisabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. 37For nothing will be impossible with