Once upon a time,in a
village called Nazareth in the land of Galilee,there lived a girl called
Mary.One day Mary was alone at home,when all of a sudden the room was filled
with a brilliant,light and there before her stood an angel.Mary was terrified,and
fell to her knees and hid her face,but the angel said,«Don't be afraid,Mary.I
have come from God to bring you good news.You are going to have a child,a
baby boy.He will be the Son of God,and you will call him Jesus,which means
Saviour,or Deliverer».Joseph,the carpenter,couldn't believe in Mary's
story.But the sngel convinced him that it was true.A short time before
Mary's baby was born,they had to go to Bethlehem in Judaea,because of the
census.The town was full of people and they couldn't find a place to sleep
in.After sometime they found a stable where baby Jesus was born.A group
of shepherds saw an angel that told them who the baby was.At the same time
three wise men saw a great new star in the sky and followed it.So they
went to the stable to worship Jesus.
They arrived at the
stable in Bethlehem and,like the shepherds before them,knelt before the
infant Jesus,joyful but also amazed that in this humble place should be
born the King of Kings.
This is what we celebrate
at Christmas time-that day nearly two thousand years ago when Jesus Christ
came into the world,with only a humble manger for a cradle.
In A Christmas
Book-adapted
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