A Miraculous Birth
Finally, around two thousand years ago, in ancient Israel, an angel appeared to a young virgin in a small town called Nazareth. The angel told her she would have a child whom she should name“ Jesus” because
“ The virgin Mary gives birth to Jesus in Bethlehem”( Luke 2:1-7)
He would“ save His people from their sins.” Because of a government ordered census at the time, Mary and the man she was engaged to, Joseph, had to travel to Joseph’ s hometown, Bethlehem, to be counted.
While there, Mary gave birth to the child Jesus in a lowly cow stable in fulfillment of all the promises made over thousands of years( Luke 2:1-8). That night, angels appeared in the sky to shepherds in Bethlehem
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