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2. Annunciation to the shepherds - Wikipedia

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   Annunciation to the shepherds. This late 15th-century Flemish miniature shows the annunciation to the shepherds. The annunciation to the shepherds is an episode in the Nativity of Jesus described in the Bible in Luke 2, in which angels tell a group of shepherds about the birth of Jesus. It is a common subject of Christian art and of Christmas ...

3. Virgin birth of Jesus - Wikipedia

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   The virgin birth of Jesus is the Christian and Islamic doctrine that Jesus was conceived by his mother, Mary, through the power of the Holy Spirit and without sexual intercourse. [ 1 ] Christians regard the doctrine as an explanation of the mixture of the human and divine natures of Jesus. [ 2 ][ 1 ] The Eastern Orthodox Churches accept the ...

4. Presentation of Jesus - Wikipedia

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   Meeting of the Lord, Russian Orthodox icon, 15th century. The event is described in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:22–40).According to the gospel, Mary and Joseph took the Infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days (inclusive) after his birth to complete Mary's ritual purification after childbirth, and to perform the redemption of the firstborn son, in obedience to the Torah (Leviticus ...

5. Infancy Gospel of Thomas - Wikipedia

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   The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus. The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant fragmentary manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century, and the earliest complete manuscript being the Codex Sabaiticus from the 11th century. [1][2] There are ...

6. Nazarene (title) - Wikipedia

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   Mary's Well, said to be the site of the Annunciation, Nazareth, 1917. Nazarene is a title used to describe people from the city of Nazareth in the New Testament (there is no mention of either Nazareth or Nazarene in the Old Testament), and is a title applied to Jesus, who, according to the New Testament, grew up in Nazareth, [1] a town in Galilee, located in ancient Judea.

7. Gospel of Luke - Wikipedia

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   Christianity portal. v. t. e. The Gospel of Luke[ note 1 ] tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. [ 4 ] Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts, [ 5 ] accounting for 27.5% of the New Testament. [ 6 ] The combined work divides the history ...