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“Love never fails” (1 Cors 13:8)
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’
11to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord.
8 In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.
6While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.
2:1In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.
80 The child grew and became strong in spirit,
and he was in the wilderness until the day he appeared publicly to Israel.
78 By the tender mercy of our God,
the dawn from on high will break upon us,
76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people
by the forgiveness of their sins.
72 Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors,
and has remembered his holy covenant,