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Day 1  •   Luke-Ac ts, part 1  9
Jo­seph went t ­ here be­cause he be­longed to the fam­i­ly line of Da­vid.
He went t ­ here with Mary to be list­ed. Mary was en­gaged to him.
She was ex­pect­ing a baby. W
­ hile Jo­seph and Mary were ­there, the
time came for the c ­ hild to be born. She gave b
­ irth to her f ­ irst baby.
It was a boy. She w
­ rapped him in l ­ arge s ­ trips of c ­ loth. Then she
placed him in a man­ger. T
­ hat’s be­cause t ­ here was no g ­ uest room
where they ­could stay.
There were shep­herds liv­ing out in the ­fields near­by. It was
night, and they were tak­ing care of ­their ­sheep. An an­gel of the
Lord ap­peared to them. And the glo­ry of the Lord ­shone ­around
them. They were ter­ri­fied. But the an­gel said to them, “Do not be
afraid. I b
­ ring you good news. It will ­bring g ­ reat joy for all the peo­
ple. To­day in the town of Da­vid a Sav­ior has been born to you. He
is the Mes­si­ah, the Lord. Here is how you will know I am tell­ing
you the ­truth. You will find a baby w
­ rapped in ­strips of ­cloth and
ly­ing in a man­ger.”
Sud­den­ly a ­large ­group of an­gels from heav­en also ap­peared.
They were prais­ing God. They said,
“May glory be given to God in the highest heaven!
And may peace be given to those he is pleased with on
earth!”
The an­gels left and went into heav­en. Then the shep­herds said
to one an­oth­er, “­Let’s go to Beth­le­hem. L
­ et’s see this t ­ hing that has
hap­pened, ­which the Lord has told us ­about.”
So they hur­ried off and ­found Mary and Jo­seph and the baby.
The baby was ly­ing in the man­ger. Af­ter the shep­herds had seen
him, they told ev­ery­one. They re­port­ed what the an­gel had said
about this ­child. All who h
­ eard it were a ­ mazed at what the shep­
herds said to them. But Mary kept all ­these ­things like a se­cret