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Luke 2

The Message Bible MSG

1 About that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire.

2 This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

3 Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for.

4 So Joseph went from the Galilean town of Nazareth up to Bethlehem in Judah, David's town, for the census. As a descendant of David, he had to go there.

5 He went with Mary, his fiancŽe, who was pregnant.

6 While they were there, the time came for her to give birth.

7 She gave birth to a son, her firstborn. She wrapped him in a blanket and laid him in a manger, because there was no room in the hostel.

8 There were sheepherders camping in the neighborhood. They had set night watches over their sheep.

9 Suddenly, God's angel stood among them and God's glory blazed around them. They were terrified.

10 The angel said, "Don't be afraid. I'm here to announce a great and joyful event that is meant for everybody, worldwide:

11 A Savior has just been born in David's town, a Savior who is Messiah and Master.

12 This is what you're to look for: a baby wrapped in a blanket and lying in a manger."

13 At once the angel was joined by a huge angelic choir singing God's praises:

14 Glory to God in the heavenly heights, Peace to all men and women on earth who please him.

15 As the angel choir withdrew into heaven, the sheepherders talked it over. "Let's get over to Bethlehem as fast as we can and see for ourselves what God has revealed to us."

16 They left, running, and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger.

17 Seeing was believing. They told everyone they met what the angels had said about this child.

18 All who heard the sheepherders were impressed.

19 Mary kept all these things to herself, holding them dear, deep within herself.

20 The sheepherders returned and let loose, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen. It turned out exactly the way they'd been told!

21 When the eighth day arrived, the day of circumcision, the child was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived.

22 Then when the days stipulated by Moses for purification were complete, they took him up to Jerusalem to offer him to God

23 as commanded in God's Law: "Every male who opens the womb shall be a holy offering to God,"

24 and also to sacrifice the "pair of doves or two young pigeons" prescribed in God's Law.

25 In Jerusalem at the time, there was a man, Simeon by name, a good man, a man who lived in the prayerful expectancy of help for Israel. And the Holy Spirit was on him.

26 The Holy Spirit had shown him that he would see the Messiah of God before he died.

27 Led by the Spirit, he entered the Temple. As the parents of the child Jesus brought him in to carry out the rituals of the Law,

28 Simeon took him into his arms and blessed God:

29 God, you can now release your servant; release me in peace as you promised.

30 With my own eyes I've seen your salvation;

31 it's now out in the open for everyone to see:

32 A God-revealing light to the non-Jewish nations, and of glory for your people Israel.

33 Jesus' father and mother were speechless with surprise at these words.

34 Simeon went on to bless them, and said to Mary his mother, This child marks both the failure and the recovery of many in Israel, A figure misunderstood and contradicted -

35 the pain of a sword-thrust through you - But the rejection will force honesty, as God reveals who they really are.

36 Anna the prophetess was also there, a daughter of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher. She was by now a very old woman. She had been married seven years

37 and a widow for eighty-four. She never left the Temple area, worshiping night and day with her fastings and prayers.

38 At the very time Simeon was praying, she showed up, broke into an anthem of praise to God, and talked about the child to all who were waiting expectantly for the freeing of Jerusalem.

39 When they finished everything required by God in the Law, they returned to Galilee and their own town, Nazareth.

40 There the child grew strong in body and wise in spirit. And the grace of God was on him. They Found Him in the Temple

41 Every year Jesus' parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Feast of Passover.

42 When he was twelve years old, they went up as they always did for the Feast.

43 When it was over and they left for home, the child Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents didn't know it.

44 Thinking he was somewhere in the company of pilgrims, they journeyed for a whole day and then began looking for him among relatives and neighbors.

45 When they didn't find him, they went back to Jerusalem looking for him.

46 The next day they found him in the Temple seated among the teachers, listening to them and asking questions.

47 The teachers were all quite taken with him, impressed with the sharpness of his answers.

48 But his parents were not impressed; they were upset and hurt. His mother said, "Young man, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been half out of our minds looking for you."

49 He said, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I had to be here, dealing with the things of my Father?"

50 But they had no idea what he was talking about.

51 So he went back to Nazareth with them, and lived obediently with them. His mother held these things dearly, deep within herself.

52 And Jesus matured, growing up in both body and spirit, blessed by both God and people.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 factum est autem in diebus illis exiit edictum a Caesare Augusto ut describeretur universus orbis

2 haec descriptio prima facta est praeside Syriae Cyrino

3 et ibant omnes ut profiterentur singuli in suam civitatem

4 ascendit autem et Ioseph a Galilaea de civitate Nazareth in Iudaeam civitatem David quae vocatur Bethleem eo quod esset de domo et familia David

5 ut profiteretur cum Maria desponsata sibi uxore praegnate

6 factum est autem cum essent ibi impleti sunt dies ut pareret

7 et peperit filium suum primogenitum et pannis eum involvit et reclinavit eum in praesepio quia non erat eis locus in diversorio

8 et pastores erant in regione eadem vigilantes et custodientes vigilias noctis supra gregem suum

9 et ecce angelus Domini stetit iuxta illos et claritas Dei circumfulsit illos et timuerunt timore magno

10 et dixit illis angelus nolite timere ecce enim evangelizo vobis gaudium magnum quod erit omni populo

11 quia natus est vobis hodie salvator qui est Christus Dominus in civitate David

12 et hoc vobis signum invenietis infantem pannis involutum et positum in praesepio

13 et subito facta est cum angelo multitudo militiae caelestis laudantium Deum et dicentium

14 gloria in altissimis Deo et in terra pax in hominibus bonae voluntatis

15 et factum est ut discesserunt ab eis angeli in caelum pastores loquebantur ad invicem transeamus usque Bethleem et videamus hoc verbum quod factum est quod fecit Dominus et ostendit nobis

16 et venerunt festinantes et invenerunt Mariam et Ioseph et infantem positum in praesepio

17 videntes autem cognoverunt de verbo quod dictum erat illis de puero hoc

18 et omnes qui audierunt mirati sunt et de his quae dicta erant a pastoribus ad ipsos

19 Maria autem conservabat omnia verba haec conferens in corde suo

20 et reversi sunt pastores glorificantes et laudantes Deum in omnibus quae audierant et viderant sicut dictum est ad illos

21 et postquam consummati sunt dies octo ut circumcideretur vocatum est nomen eius Iesus quod vocatum est ab angelo priusquam in utero conciperetur

22 et postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis eius secundum legem Mosi tulerunt illum in Hierusalem ut sisterent eum Domino

23 sicut scriptum est in lege Domini quia omne masculinum adaperiens vulvam sanctum Domino vocabitur

24 et ut darent hostiam secundum quod dictum est in lege Domini par turturum aut duos pullos columbarum

25 et ecce homo erat in Hierusalem cui nomen Symeon et homo iste iustus et timoratus expectans consolationem Israhel et Spiritus Sanctus erat in eo

26 et responsum acceperat ab Spiritu Sancto non visurum se mortem nisi prius videret Christum Domini

27 et venit in Spiritu in templum et cum inducerent puerum Iesum parentes eius ut facerent secundum consuetudinem legis pro eo

28 et ipse accepit eum in ulnas suas et benedixit Deum et dixit

29 nunc dimittis servum tuum Domine secundum verbum tuum in pace

30 quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum

31 quod parasti ante faciem omnium populorum

32 lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam plebis tuae Israhel

33 et erat pater eius et mater mirantes super his quae dicebantur de illo

34 et benedixit illis Symeon et dixit ad Mariam matrem eius ecce positus est hic in ruinam et resurrectionem multorum in Israhel et in signum cui contradicetur

35 et tuam ipsius animam pertransiet gladius ut revelentur ex multis cordibus cogitationes

36 et erat Anna prophetissa filia Phanuhel de tribu Aser haec processerat in diebus multis et vixerat cum viro suo annis septem a virginitate sua

37 et haec vidua usque ad annos octoginta quattuor quae non discedebat de templo ieiuniis et obsecrationibus serviens nocte ac die

38 et haec ipsa hora superveniens confitebatur Domino et loquebatur de illo omnibus qui expectabant redemptionem Hierusalem

39 et ut perfecerunt omnia secundum legem Domini reversi sunt in Galilaeam in civitatem suam Nazareth

40 puer autem crescebat et confortabatur plenus sapientia et gratia Dei erat in illo

41 et ibant parentes eius per omnes annos in Hierusalem in die sollemni paschae

42 et cum factus esset annorum duodecim ascendentibus illis in Hierosolymam secundum consuetudinem diei festi

43 consummatisque diebus cum redirent remansit puer Iesus in Hierusalem et non cognoverunt parentes eius

44 existimantes autem illum esse in comitatu venerunt iter diei et requirebant eum inter cognatos et notos

45 et non invenientes regressi sunt in Hierusalem requirentes eum

46 et factum est post triduum invenerunt illum in templo sedentem in medio doctorum audientem illos et interrogantem

47 stupebant autem omnes qui eum audiebant super prudentia et responsis eius

48 et videntes admirati sunt et dixit mater eius ad illum fili quid fecisti nobis sic ecce pater tuus et ego dolentes quaerebamus te

49 et ait ad illos quid est quod me quaerebatis nesciebatis quia in his quae Patris mei sunt oportet me esse

50 et ipsi non intellexerunt verbum quod locutus est ad illos

51 et descendit cum eis et venit Nazareth et erat subditus illis et mater eius conservabat omnia verba haec in corde suo

52 et Iesus proficiebat sapientia aetate et gratia apud Deum et homines