Luke 2:12 Parallel Translations

This is how you will recognize him: You will find an infant wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

ASV:

And this is the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.

BBE:

And this is the sign to you: you will see a young child folded in linen, in the place where the cattle have their food.

DBY:

And this is the sign to you: ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and lying in a manger.

ERV:

And this is the sign unto you; Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.

WEY:

And this is the token for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."

WBS:

And this shall be a sign to you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, lying in a manger.

WEB:

This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough."

YLT:

and this is to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.'

Luke 2:12 Cross References

XREF:

1 Samuel 2:34 'This will be the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on the same day both of them will die.

2 Kings 19:29 'Then this shall be the sign for you: you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

2 Kings 20:8 Now Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD the third day?"

Isaiah 7:11 "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven."

Isaiah 7:14 "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

2:12 A sign to you. The sign was not itself a miraculous one, but the prediction of it was so. The babe, the swaddle, and the manger were the three tokens.

MHC:

2:8-20 Angels were heralds of the new-born Saviour, but they were only sent to some poor, humble, pious, industrious shepherds, who were in the business of their calling, keeping watch over their flock. We are not out of the way of Divine visits, when we are employed in an honest calling, and abide with God in it. Let God have the honour of this work; Glory to God in the highest. God's good-will to men, manifested in sending the Messiah, redounds to his praise. Other works of God are for his glory, but the redemption of the world is for his glory in the highest. God's goodwill in sending the Messiah, brought peace into this lower world. Peace is here put for all that good which flows to us from Christ's taking our nature upon him. This is a faithful saying, attested by an innumerable company of angels, and well worthy of all acceptation, That the good-will of God toward men, is glory to God in the highest, and peace on the earth. The shepherds lost no time, but came with haste to the place. They were satisfied, and made known abroad concerning this child, that he was the Saviour, even Christ the Lord. Mary carefully observed and thought upon all these things, which were so suited to enliven her holy affections. We should be more delivered from errors in judgment and practice, did we more fully ponder these things in our hearts. It is still proclaimed in our ears that to us is born a Saviour, Christ the Lord. These should be glad tidings to all.

CONC:

Babe Baby Cattle Child Cloth Clothes Cloths Feeding Folded Linen Lying Manger Sign Strips Swaddling Swaddling-clothes Token Trough Wrapped

Babe Baby Cattle Child Cloth Clothes Cloths es Feeding Find Folded Food Lying Manger Sign Strips Swaddling Swaddling-Clothes Token Trough Wrapped Young

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