Luke 2:16

16 And they cam with haste and founde Mary and Ioseph and the babe layde in a mager.

Luke 2:16 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 2:16

And they came with haste
In the night, leaving their flocks, to see their incarnate Lord, as Zacchaeus hastened down from the tree to receive the Saviour. The wonderfulness of the vision, the importance of the thing related, the eagerness of their spirits to see the thing that was told them, put them on making quick dispatch, and hastening to the city with all speed:

and found Mary and Joseph;
as they had been directed by the angel, in the city of Bethlehem, in an inn there, and in a stable in the inn:

and the babe lying in a manger:
where Mary had put it as soon as born, and had wrapped it in swaddling clothes; because there was no room in the inn, and as the angel had told them they should find it, ( Luke 2:12 )

Luke 2:16 In-Context

14 Glory to God an hye and peace on the erth: and vnto men reioysynge.

15 And it fortuned assone as the angels were gone awaye fro them in to heven the shepherdes sayd one to another: let vs goo eve vnto Bethleem and se this thynge that is hapened which the Lorde hath shewed vnto vs.

16 And they cam with haste and founde Mary and Ioseph and the babe layde in a mager.

17 And when they had sene it they publisshed a brode the sayinge which was tolde them of that chylde.

18 And all that hearde it wondred at those thinges which were tolde the of the shepherdes.