The Story of Christmas: The Birth of Jesus in Scripture
Edited by Gary C. Wharton
To Christians, Jesus Christ is the single most important and influential person in history — everything, including the yearly calendar, focuses on him and his coming into our world. Christmas celebrates the many aspects of his birth through pageants, music, scripture readings, and family celebrations.
The Story of Christmas recounts his miraculous birth in detail. It also includes the complete text of many beloved Christmas carols, hymns, and songs and the stories of their musical origins.
Taken directly and entirely from the Gospel accounts of Matthew, Luke, and John, The Story of Christmas offers a chronological retelling of the events associated with the miraculous birth of Jesus, recounting the story word-for-word from the Bible without embellishment. Different translations in today's vernacular have been blended together to form the narrative, and only where clarification is required or where there is redundancy between the Gospel writers have words been omitted or altered to make the story clearer.
Following the traditional understanding of these momentous events, the text of The Story of Christmas includes prophecies from his birth from the Old Testament, the announcement of his birth to Mary, the proclamation by the angels, the visits by the shepherds and the wisemen of the East, Simeon and Anna's pronouncements, the escape of Egypt and return to Nazareth, and his family's visit to the temple where he was twelve years of age.
| GARY WHARTON is the president of OMCO, a sales and marketing company in the religious and gift markets. A former editor of Moody Press, he lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
$9.95, Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-58182-303-7 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-303-5 (Paperback)
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