Zechariah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man and my wife well advanced in years.” Luke 1:18 — Modern English Version (Thinline Edition.; Lake Mary, FL: Passio, 2014) This is Zechariah's response to the angel that visited him while he was burning incense in the temple before …
Tag: Jesus' Birth
A Child is Born, a Son is Given
Here’s something that has occupied the spare processing cycles in my brain when the screen saver is active. In other words, there is something that I have been considering deeply. For unto us a child is born,unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be …
A Child is Born
And in the same area there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And then an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were very afraid.Luke 2:8–9 — Modern English Version (Thinline Edition.; Lake Mary, FL: Passio, 2014) …
God’s Bread
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the entire inhabited earth should be taxed. This taxation was first made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And everyone went to his own city to be taxed.So Joseph also departed from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to the City of David which …
The Virgin Birth
And Joseph, when he woke up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and he took his wife and did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.Matthew 1:24–25 — The Lexham English Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012) God …
Christmas, Behold the Lord’s Female Slave
Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin legally promised in marriage to a man named Joseph of the house of David. And the name of the virgin was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The …
Master's Crumbs 