Matthew 1:18-25 - The Birth Of Jesus Christ

¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in wise: when Mary his mother was promised in marriage to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child by the Holy Ghost: ¹⁹ but Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was inclined to break off the contract with her privately;

²⁰ and when he was thinking on these things, behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph thou Son of David, scruple not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. ²¹ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.

²² (Now all this came to pass, that it might be fulfilled, which the Lord spake by the prophet, saying,

²³ "Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel," which is God with us.)

²⁴ So Joseph, when he awoke from his sleep, did as the angel of the Lord directed him, and took home his wife: ²⁵ and he knew her not, till she brought forth her Son the first-born, and he called his name Jesus.

¹ Now in those days an edict was published by Augustus Cesar, that all the world should be enrolled or taxed, ² (this tax was first levied when Cyrenius was governor of Syria) and they all went to be enrolled, ³ every one to his own city:

⁴ so Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem (because he ⁵ was of the house and line of David) to be enrolled with Mary his espoused wife, who was big with child. ⁶ And while they were there, the days of her delivery were fulfilled, ⁷ and she brought forth her son, the first-born, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.