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The time arrived for Elisheva to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son.

He motioned for a writing tablet, and to everyone's surprise he wrote, "His name is Yochanan."

Everyone who heard of them said to himself, "What is this child going to be?" For clearly the hand of Adonai was with him.

by raising up for us a mighty Deliverer who is a descendant of his servant David.

The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he lived in the wilderness until the time came for him to appear in public to Isra'el.

Around this time, Emperor Augustus issued an order for a census to be taken throughout the Empire.

While they were there, the time came for her to give birth;

and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in cloth and laid him down in a feeding trough, because there was no space for them in the living-quarters.

This very day, in the town of David, there was born for you a Deliverer who is the Messiah, the Lord.

Meanwhile, the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen; it had been just as they had been told.

On the eighth day, when it was time for his b'rit-milah, he was given the name Yeshua, which is what the angel had called him before his conception.

When the time came for their purification according to the Torah of Moshe, they took him up to Yerushalayim to present him to Adonai

There was in Yerushalayim a man named Shim‘on. This man was a tzaddik, he was devout, he waited eagerly for God to comfort Isra'el, and the Ruach HaKodesh was upon him.

Prompted by the Spirit, he went into the Temple courts; and when the parents brought in the child Yeshua to do for him what the Torah required,

for I have seen with my own eyes your yeshu‘ah,

She came by at that moment and began thanking God and speaking about the child to everyone who was waiting for Yerushalayim to be liberated.

Every year Yeshua's parents went to Yerushalayim for the festival of Pesach.

When he was twelve years old, they went up for the festival, as custom required.

supposing that he was somewhere in the caravan, they spent a whole day on the road before they began searching for him among their relatives and friends.

Failing to find him, they returned to Yerushalayim to look for him.