Luke 2:12
10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid! For behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people:
11 Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord!
And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
13 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying:
14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests!”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
- KJV
- And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
- WEB
- This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”
- ASV
- And this [is] the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.
- DARBY
- And this is the sign to you: ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and lying in a manger.
- BLB
- And this [is] the sign to you⁺: You⁺ will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
- ÅB
- Og dette skal dere ha til tegn: Dere skal finne et barn svøpt, liggende i en krybbe.
- OTB
- Og dette skal være tegnet for dere: Dere skal finne et barn svøpt og liggende i en krybbe."
- B1930
- Og dette skal I ha til tegn: I skal finne et barn svøpt, liggende i en krybbe.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
Read in contextIsaiah 53:1–2
Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
Read in contextIsaiah 7:11
“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”
Read in contextPsalms 22:6
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
Read in context2 Kings 19:29
And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Read in context2 Kings 20:8
Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
Read in context1 Samuel 2:34
And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.
Read in context1 Samuel 10:2–7
When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
Read in context