VER 1. AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, THAT THERE WENT OUT A DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS, THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED. 2. (AND THIS TAXING WAS FIRST MADE WHEN CYRENIUS WAS GOVERNOR OF SYRIA.) 3. AND ALL WENT TO BE TAXED, EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN CITY. 4. AND JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE,... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 6. AND SO IT WAS, THAT, WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED THAT SHE SHOULD BE DELIVERED. 7. AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER; BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN. AMBROSE; St. Luke has briefly explai... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 8. AND THERE WERE IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS ABIDING IN THE FIELD, KEEPING WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT. 9. AND, LO, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME UPON THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE ROUND ABOUT THEM: AND THEY WERE SORE AFRAID. 10. AND THE ANGEL SAID TO THEM, FEAR NOT: FOR, BEHOLD, I B... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 13. AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD, AND SAYING, 14. GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN. THEOPHYL; Lest the authority of a single Angel should appear small, as soon as one had revealed the sacrament of the ne... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 15. AND IT CAME PASS, AS THE ANGELS WERE GONE AWAY FROM THEM INTO HEAVEN, THE SHEPHERDS SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, LET US NOW GO EVEN TO BETHLEHEM, AND SEE THIS THING WHICH IS COME TO PASS, WHICH THE LORD HAS MADE KNOWN TO US. 16. AND THEY CAME WITH HASTE, AND FOUND MARY, AND JOSEPH, AND THE BABE LYIN... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 21. AND WHEN EIGHT DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE CIRCUMCISING OF THE CHILD, HIS NAME WAS CALLED JESUS, WHICH WAS SO NAMED OF THE ANGEL BEFORE HE WAS CONCEIVED IN THE WOMB. THEOPHYL; Having related our Lord's nativity, the Evangelist adds, And after that eight days were accomplished for the cir... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 22. AND WHEN THE DAYS OF HER PURIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES WERE ACCOMPLISHED, THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM, TO PRESENT HIM TO THE LORD; 23. (AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF THE LORD, EVERY MALE THAT OPENS THE WOMB SHALL BE CALLED HOLY TO THE LORD;) 24. AND TO OFFER A SACRIFICE ACCOR... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 25. AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A MAN IN JERUSALEM, WHOSE NAME WAS SIMEON; AND THE SAME MAN WAS JUST AND DEVOUT, WAITING FOR THE CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL: AND THE HOLY GHOST WAS UPON HIM. 26. AND IT WAS REVEALED TO HIM BY THE HOLY GHOST, THAT HE SHOULD NOT SEE DEATH, BEFORE HE HAD SEEN THE LORD'S CHRIST... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 28. - AND BLESSED GOD, AND SAID, 29. LORD, NOW LET YOU YOUR SERVANT DEPART IN PEACE, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD: 30. FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN YOUR SALVATION, 31. WHICH YOU HAVE PREPARED BEFORE THE FACE OF ALL PEOPLE; 32. A LIGHT TO LIGHTEN THE GENTILES, AND THE GLORY OF YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL. ORIGEN; I... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 33. AND JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER MARVELED AT THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN OF HIM. 34. AND SIMEON BLESSED THEM, AND SAID TO MARY HIS MOTHER, BEHOLD, THIS CHILD IS SET FOR THE FALL AND RISING AGAIN OF MANY IN ISRAEL; AND FOR A SIGN WHICH SHALL BE SPOKEN AGAINST; 35. (YEA, A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROU... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 36. AND THERE WAS ONE ANNA, A PROPHETESS, THE DAUGHTER OF PHANUEL, OF THE TRIBE OF ASER: SHE WAS OF A GREAT AGE, AND HAD LIVED WITH A HUSBAND SEVEN YEARS FROM HER VIRGINITY; 37. AND SHE WAS A WIDOW OF ABOUT FOURSCORE AND FOUR YEARS, WHICH DEPARTED NOT FROM THE TEMPLE, BUT SERVED GOD WITH FASTING... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 39. AND WHEN THEY HAD PERFORMED ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE LORD, THEY RETURNED INTO GALILEE, TO THEIR OWN CITY NAZARETH. 40. AND THE CHILD GREW, AND WAXED STRONG IN SPIRIT, FILLED WITH WISDOM: AND THE GRACE OF GOD WAS UPON HIM. 41. NOW HIS PARENTS WENT TO JERUSALEM EVERY YEAR AT THE... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver 42. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. 44. But they, supposing him to have been in the compan... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 51. AND HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM, AND CAME TO NAZARETH, AND WAS SUBJECT TO THEM: BUT HIS MOTHER KEPT ALL THESE SAYINGS IN HER HEART. 52. AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE, AND IN FAVOR WITH GOD AND MAN. GREEK EX. All that time of the life of Christ which He passed between His manifestatio... [ Continue Reading ]