The birth of Jesus

Wilson Matto
About ”2012 years ago”, In the city of Nazareth, There was a virgin girl named Mary. She was a righteous and pious girl. She was engaged to marriage a man named Joseph son of Jacob citizen of be the Bethlehem. Joseph was a righteous God fearing person and feared God. God saw that Mary was a holy girl, so God sent his angel Gabrial to Nazareth a town of Galilee to give the good news to Mary. The angel went to her and said, “greetings to you, you are highly favoured, the Lord is with you, but Mary was very confused and troubled at his words. She wondered what kind of greeting might these be? But the angel of God said to her “Do not be afraid Mary, God has pleased with you and you have been found favioured with God. Holy spirit will shy upon you and you will be pregnant and you will give birth to a son, you will name him Jesus. He will save his people from their sins”. After listening the angel’s words Mary said to him, “I have not seen the man, how can I give birth to a child,” The angel said to Mary “Do not be afraid it is all done by holy spirit. After giving this message to Mary which is given by the God almighty the angel went back. After listening the angel’s message, Mary said to herself “May God’s desire be fulfilled”. When Joseph heard that his wife is found to be pregnant before marriage, through, he was a good man so he did not want Mary to be expose to public disgrace. So he planned to divorce her secretly. An angel of the Lord appeared to him in dream and said, Joseph don’t be afraid to accept Mary to be your wife. The baby inside her womb is by the grace of holy spirit. She will give birth to a child you will name him Jesus. When Joseph woke up and he did what the angel of Lord commanded him to do. He took Mary home as his wife. Joseph did not have any sexual relationship with her until his first son was born. At that time Roman’s were ruling Israel. A rule was passed by the Romans ruler Ceasar Augustus that all the citizens must have their names registered in their home town. Joseph belongs to the house of David, so he had to go to the city of king David in Bethelhm for the census. When Joseph and Mary reached Bethelhem it was getting dark and the town was over crowded due to census. They could not find any accommodation in any of inns. So finally they had to stay in a cattle shed. That night baby Jesus was born to Mary. The baby Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes and was in the manger. There were shepherds roaming out in the field near by keeping watch on their flocks at night and angel of the Lord appeared to them and glory of the Lord shone around them and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, do not be afraid ‘. I have brought a good news of great joy for you and for all the people in the town of Bethelhem. A saviour has been born for you he is the Christ the Lord. This will be a sign for you. You will find a baby wrapperd in clothes and lying in a manger. After giving this message, the angel went away. After hearing this message, the shepherds said to each other,” Let’s go to Bethlehem and see the God’s miracle, that the angel had said, and they went there and found Mary and Joseph along with a new born baby Jesus lying in a manger and they adored the baby and went back by praising and singing what they have seen. “Centuries ago, it had been prophesied that a savior, a messiah would be born and at the time of his birth a bright star will appear in the east”. Three wise men of different countries saw this star in the East and followed him by following the star.
The wise men came to Bethelhem in Judea. The wise men came to king Herod and asked him where is the king of jews, who was born. We saw his star in the East and we have come to worship him”. When king Herod heard this, he was disturbed and very soon he organized the short meeting of the chief priests and teachers of law and asked them where is the king of jews. Teachers of law replied him, what the prophet has written in the past. After hearing this, the king Herod said to the wise men.” Go and make a careful search of the child as you find the child report to me so that I may also worship him. After this the wise men went on their way for searching the child. While they are on their way again they saw the brightening star which they have seen in the sky in the East. They again followed him and the brightening star went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was born. The wise men went in and they were overjoyed seeing the child Jesus his mother and Joseph.
They bowed down and worshiped him and they presented him the gifts. And this is how the birth of Jesus came about bringing happiness to the whole world. Christmas is a festival of peace, joy and harmony. It always celebrated on 25th of December. Although in the Bible, no date is mentioned but the followers of Jesus adopted this date as his date of birth. On this day, the people of Christian community offer prayers in the church. After that they distribute gifts and greeting cards among them selves, and friends and relative and they decorates Christmas tree. Elder people wear Santa Claus dress and distribute gifts to the children. Christmas gives a message to the whole world to be friendly to each other and maintain communal harmony.

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