10. The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.
11. For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
12. This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”
13. Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,
14. “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
15. When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
16. They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough.
17. When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.
18. All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds.
19. But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
20. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.
21. When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22. When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord
23. (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),
24. and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”