Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Luke 1
⁷⁶ And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; For you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
⁷⁷ To give knowledge of salvation to His people By the remission of their sins,
⁷⁸ Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;
⁷⁹ To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace."
⁸⁰ So the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel.
Luke 2
¹ And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
² This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.
³ So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
⁴ Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,
⁵ to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child.
⁶ So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered.