Tuesday, December 24, 2019

The Gift

"At that time a proclamation was made by Caesar Augustus that all the inhabited world should be registered. This was the first census, undertaken while Cyrenius was governor of Syria and everybody went to the town of his birth to be registered. 

Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to David’s town, Bethlehem, in Judea, because he was a direct descendant of David, to be registered with his future wife, Mary, now in the later stages of her pregnancy. So it happened that it was while they were there in Bethlehem that she came to the end of her time. 

She gave birth to her first child, a son. And as there was no place for them inside the inn, she wrapped him up and laid him in a manger."



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-bill kenny

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