Nascimento

The Nativity of the Messiah

18 The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After his mother Mary had been engaged  * to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant from the Holy Spirit.  *19 So her husband, Joseph, being a righteous man,  * and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly.  *

20 But after he had considered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.  *21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus,  * because he will save his people from their sins."  *

22 Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet:

23 See, the virgin will become pregnant

and give birth to a son,

and they will name him Immanuel,  *

which is translated "God is with us."  *

24 When Joseph woke up, he did as the Lord’s angel had commanded him. He married her  *25 but did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son.  * And he named him Jesus.  *

14 Therefore, the Lord himself will give you  * a sign: See, the virgin will conceive,  * have a son, and name him Immanuel.  *,*

Gabriel Predicts Jesus’s Birth

26 In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel  * was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,  *27 to a virgin engaged  *,* to a man named Joseph, of the house of David.  * The virgin’s name was Mary.

30 Then the angel told her, "Do not be afraid, Mary,  * for you have found favor with God.  *31 Now listen: You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.  *32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High,  * and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.  *33 He will reign over the house of Jacob  * forever, and his kingdom will have no end."  *

34 Mary asked the angel, "How can this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man? "  *

35 The angel replied to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you,  * and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.  *

13 For it was you who created my inward parts;  *

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  *

14 I will praise you

because I have been remarkably and wondrously made.  *,*

Your works are wondrous,

and I know this very well.  *

15 My bones were not hidden from you

when I was made in secret,

when I was formed in the depths of the earth.  *

16 Your eyes saw me when I was formless;

all my days were written in your book and planned

before a single one of them began.  *

5 I chose you before I formed you in the womb;

I set you apart before you were born.  *

I appointed you a prophet to the nations.  *

9 It was you who brought me out of the womb,

making me secure at my mother’s breast.  *

10 I was given over to you at birth;  *

you have been my God from my mother’s womb.  *

6 I have leaned on you from birth;

you took me from my mother’s womb.  *

My praise is always about you.  *

15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child,

or lack compassion for the child of her womb?

Even if these forget,

yet I will not forget you.

9 "Will I bring a baby to the point of birth

and not deliver it? "

says the Lord;

"or will I who deliver, close the womb? "

says your God.

14 Jesus said, "Leave the little children alone, and don’t try to keep them from coming to me, because the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."*,*

4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child — this one is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.5 And whoever welcomes*one child like this in my name welcomes me.

16 After taking them in his arms, he laid his hands on  * them and blessed  * them.

3 Sons are indeed a heritage from the  Lord,

offspring, a reward.  *

27 I prayed for this boy,  * and since the Lord gave me what I asked him for,  *

4 For you have made me rejoice, Lord,

by what you have done;

I will shout for joy

because of the works of your hands.  *

3 Jesus replied, "Truly I tell you, unless someone is born again,*,*he cannot see the kingdom of God."*

21 When a woman is in labor, she has pain*because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child,*she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

9 Everyone who has been born of God  * does not sin,  * because his seed  * remains in him; he is not able to sin,  * because he has been born of God.

9 Sing to him; sing praise to him;

tell about all his wondrous works!