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It describes Joseph marrying Mary and waiting until after her birth, the Roman census that forces their journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, and the birth in a stable with the baby laid in a feeding trough. The account concludes with shepherds’ encounter with a heavenly messenger announcing the Messiah’s arrival.","23. The Birth of Jesus  \nA Bible story from Matthew 1; Luke 2  \nEnglish Spiritual  \n23. The Birth of Jesus  \nDistant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community. Illustrations are © Sweet Publishing.  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2015, unfolding Word | Open Bible Stories  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nThis work is a derivative of \"Creative Commons Open Bible Stories\" attributed to [unfoldingWord.org](unfoldingWord.org) used under CC BY SA 4.0. All included images originate from “Bible Images from Sweet Publishing” attributed to Sweet Publishing used under CC BY SA 3.0.  \nMary was engaged to a righteous man named Joseph. When he heard that Mary was pregnant, he knew it was not his baby. He did not want to shame Mary, so he planned to quietly divorce her . Before he could do that, an angel came and spoke to him in a dream .  \nThe angel said,“Joseph, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. The baby that is in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son . Name him Jesus (which means, ‘Yahweh saves’), because he will save the people from their sins .”  \nSo Joseph married Mary and took her home as his wife, but he did not sleep with her until she had given birth.  \nWhen the time was near for Mary to give birth, the Roman government told everyone to go for a census to the town where their ancestors had lived. Joseph and Mary had to make a long journey from where they lived in Nazareth to Bethlehem because their ancestor was David whose hometown was Bethlehem .  \nWhen they arrived in Bethlehem, there was no place to stay. The only room they could find was a place where animals stayed. The baby was born there and his mother laid him in a feeding trough, since they did not have a bed for him . They named him Jesus .  \nThat night, there were some shepherdsin a nearby field guarding their flocks. Suddenly, a shining angel appeared to them, and they were terrified. The angel said,“Do not be afraid, because I have some good news for you . 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