Luke 2:16-21

Contemporary English Version

¹⁶ They hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and they saw the baby lying on a bed of hay.

¹⁷ When the shepherds saw Jesus, they told his parents what the angel had said about him. ¹⁸ Everyone listened and was surprised. ¹⁹ But Mary kept thinking about all this and wondering what it meant.

²⁰ As the shepherds returned to their sheep, they were praising God and saying wonderful things about him. Everything they had seen and heard was just as the angel had said.

^21 (A) Eight days later Jesus' parents did for him what the Law of Moses commands.^[a] And they named him Jesus, just as the angel had told Mary when he promised she would have a baby.