Nascimento de Jesus
O nascimento de Jesus é o evento que divide a história. O Verbo se fez carne e habitou entre nós. Deus enviou seu Filho ao mundo para nos salvar e nos reconciliar consigo.
O Verbo se fez carne
Jesus não nasceu por acaso — sua encarnação foi planejada antes da fundação do mundo. Ele se esvaziou e assumiu a forma humana por amor.
And feel ye this thing in you, which was also in Christ Jesus;
which when he was in the form of God, deemed not raven, that himself were even to God [or himself to be even to God],
but he lowed [or meeked] himself, taking the form of a servant, and was made into the likeness of men,
and in habit was found as a man. He meeked himself, and was made obedient to the death, yea, to the death of the cross.
But after that the fulfilling of time came, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
that he should again-buy them that were under the law, that we should receive the adoption of sons.
Therefore for children communed to flesh and blood, and he also took part of the same, that by death he should destroy him that had lordship of death, that is to say, the devil,
and that he should deliver them that by dread of death, by all life were bound to servage.
Wherefore he ought to be likened to brethren by all things, that he should be made merciful and a faithful bishop to God, that he should be merciful to the trespasses of the people.
For God loved so the world [or Forsooth God so loved the world], that he gave his one begotten Son, that each man that believeth in him perish not, but have everlasting life.
O anúncio e o nascimento
O nascimento de Jesus foi anunciado por anjos, precedido por sinais e recebido com adoração pelos pastores e pelos magos do oriente.
But the generation of Christ was thus. When Mary, the mother of Jesus, was espoused to Joseph, before that they came together, she was found having of the Holy Ghost in the womb.
But while he thought these things, lo! the angel of the Lord appeared to him in sleep, and said, Joseph, the son of David, do not thou dread to take Mary, thy wife; for that thing that is born in her is of the Holy Ghost.
And she shall bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall make his people safe from their sins.
For all this thing was done, that it should be fulfilled, that was said of the Lord by a prophet, saying,
Lo! a virgin shall have in [the] womb, and she shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, that is to say, God with us.
And Joseph rose [up] from sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took Mary, his wife;
and he knew her not, till she had born her first begotten son, and he called his name Jesus.
And the angel said to her, Dread thou not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God.
Lo! thou shalt conceive in [the] womb, and shalt bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
This [or He] shall be great, and he shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give to him the seat of David, his father,
and he shall reign in the house of Jacob [into] without end, and of his realm shall be none end.
And Joseph went up from Galilee, from the city [of] Nazareth, into Judea, into a city of David, that is called Bethlehem, for that he was of the house and of the meine of David,
that he should acknowledge with Mary, his wife, that was wedded to him, and was great with child.
And it was done, while they were there, the days were fulfilled, that she should bear child.
And she bare her first-born son, and wrapped him in ‘clothes, and laid him in a cratch, for there was no place to him in no chamber.
And the angel said to them, Do not ye dread; for lo! I preach to you a great joy, that shall be to all people.
For a Saviour is born today to you, that is Christ the Lord, in the city of David.
And this is a token to you; ye shall find a young child wrapped in ‘clothes, and laid in a cratch.
And it was done, as the angels passed away from them into heaven, the shepherds spake together, and said, Go we over to Bethlehem, and see we this word that is made, which the Lord hath made, and showed to us.
And they hieing came, and found Mary and Joseph, and the young child laid in a cratch.
And they seeing, knew of the word that was said to them of this child.
And all men that heard wondered, and of these things that were said to them of the shepherds.
O Rei que veio servir
Jesus nasceu para ser Rei, e todo aquele que é da verdade ouve a sua voz. Os magos o adoraram e ofereceram seus tesouros.
And so Pilate said to him, Then thou art a king. Jesus answered, Thou sayest, that I am a king. To this thing I am born, and to this I came into the world, to bear witnessing to truth. Each [man] that is of truth, heareth my voice.
And when they had heard the king, they went forth. And lo! the star, that they saw in the east, went before them, till it came, and stood above, where the child was.
And they saw the star, and joyed with a full great joy.
And they entered into the house, and found the child with Mary, his mother; and they felled down, and worshipped him. And when they had opened their treasures, they offered to him gifts, gold, incense, and myrrh.
And when they had taken an answer in sleep, that they should not turn again to Herod, they turned again by another way into their [own] country.
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