Luke 2:1-31 ▼

1 And it chaunced in thoose dayes: yt ther went oute a comaundment from Auguste the Emperour that all the woorlde shuld be taxed.

2 And this taxynge was ye fyrst and executed when Syrenius was leftenaut in Syria.

3 And every man went vnto his awne citie to be taxed.

4 And Ioseph also ascended from Galile oute of a cite called Nazareth into Iurie: vnto ye cite of David which is called Bethleem because he was of the housse and linage of David

5 to be taxed with Mary his spoused wyfe which was with chylde.

6 And it fortuned whyll they were there her tyme was come that she shuld be delyvered.

7 And she brought forth her fyrst begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadlynge cloothes and layed him in a manger because ther was no roume for them within in the ynne.

8 And ther were in the same region shepherdes abydinge in the felde and watching their flocke by nyght.

9 And loo: the angell of ye lorde stode harde by the and the brightnes of ye lorde shone rounde aboute them and they were soare afrayed.

10 But the angell sayd vnto them: Be not afrayed. For beholde I bringe you tydinges of greate ioye yt shal come to all ye people:

11 for vnto you is borne this daye in the cite of David a saveoure which is Christ ye lorde.

12 And take this for a signe: ye hall fynde ye chylde swadled and layed in a mager.

13 And streight waye ther was with the angell a multitude of hevenly sowdiers laudynge God and sayinge:

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.

19 But Mary kept all thoose sayinges and pondered them in hyr hert.

20 And the shepherdes retourned praysinge and laudinge God for all that they had herde and sene evyn as it was told vnto them.

21 And when ye eyght daye was come yt the chylde shuld be circucised his name was called Iesus which was named of the angell before he was conceaved in the wombe.

22 And when the tyme of their purificacio (after the lawe of Moyses) was come they brought him to Hierusalem to present hym to ye Lorde

23 (as yt is written in the lawe of the Lorde: every man that fyrst openeth the matrix shalbe called holy to the Lorde)

24 and to offer (as it ys sayde in the lawe of the Lorde) a payre of turtle doves or two yonge pigions.

25 And beholde ther was a ma in Hierusalem whose name was Simeon. And the same ma was iuste and feared God and longed for the consolacion of Israel and the holy goost was in him.

26 And an answer was geven him of the holy goost that he shulde not se deethe before he had sene the lordes Christ.

27 And he came by inspiracion into the temple. And when the father and mother brought in the chylde Iesus to do for him after the custome of the lawe

28 then toke he him vp in his armes and sayde.

29 Lorde Now lettest thou thy seruaut departe in peace accordinge to thy promes.

30 For myne eyes have sene ye saveour sent fro ye

31 Wich thou hast prepared before the face of all people.