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John Hersey’s The Wall is not a great book.
This year, like every year for the past twenty-five, I have written a children’s Christmas story to read at the Christmas Day service.
41 Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover.
39 When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.
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36 There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher.
33And the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was being said about him.
27and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him what was customary under the law, 28Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying,
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27and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him what was customary under the law,28Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying,
22When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
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