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Luke

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, out of the city of Nazareth, into Ju­daea, unto the city of David, which is called Beth­le­hem; (be­cause he was of the house and lin­eage of David:) 5 To be taxed with Mary his es­poused wife, be­ing great with child. 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. 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 unto them, Fear not: for, be­hold, I bring you good tid­ings of great joy, which shall be to all peo­ple. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swad­dling clothes, ly­ing in a manger. 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. 15 And it came to pass, as the an­gels were gone away from them into heav­en, the shep­herds said one to an­oth­er, Let us now go even unto Beth­le­hem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. 16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe ly­ing in a manger. 17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the say­ing which was told them con­cern­ing this child. 18 And all they that heard it won­dered at those things which were told them by the shep­herds. 19 But Mary kept all these things, and pon­dered them in her heart. 20 And the shep­herds re­turned, glo­ri­fy­ing and prais­ing God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. 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. 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 openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;) 24 And to of­fer a sac­ri­fice ac­cord­ing to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of tur­tle­doves, or two young pi­geons. 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 unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, be­fore he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came by the Spir­it into the tem­ple: and when the par­ents brought in the child Je­sus, to do for him af­ter the cus­tom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, 29 Lord, now lettest thou thy ser­vant de­part in peace, ac­cord­ing to thy word: 30 For mine eyes have seen thy sal­va­tion, 31 Which thou hast pre­pared be­fore the face of all peo­ple; 32 A light to light­en the Gen­tiles, and the glo­ry of thy peo­ple Is­rael. 33 And Joseph and his moth­er mar­velled at those things which were spo­ken of him. 34 And Sime­on blessed them, and said unto 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 through thy own soul al­so, ) that the thoughts of many hearts may be re­vealed. 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 an 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 fast­ings and prayers night and day. 38 And she com­ing in that in­stant gave thanks like­wise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for re­demp­tion in Jerusalem. 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 feast of the passover. 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 com­pa­ny, went a day's jour­ney; and they sought him among their kins­folk and ac­quain­tance. 45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seek­ing him. 46 And it came to pass, that af­ter three days they found him in the tem­ple, sit­ting in the midst of the doc­tors, both hear­ing them, and ask­ing them ques­tions. 47 And all that heard him were as­ton­ished at his un­der­stand­ing and an­swers. 48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his moth­er said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? be­hold, thy fa­ther and I have sought thee sor­row­ing. 49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's busi­ness? 50 And they un­der­stood not the say­ing which he spake unto them. 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was sub­ject unto them: but his moth­er kept all these say­ings in her heart. 52 And Je­sus in­creased in wis­dom and stature, and in favour with God and man.