Luke 2:8
And there were in ye same region shepherdes in the felde by the foldes, and watchinge their flocke by night.
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- Gen 31:39-40 : 39 Loke what was torne of beastes, I brought it not vnto ye, I was fayne to paie it my self: thou requyredest it of my hande, whether it were stollen fro me by daye or by night. 40 On the daye tyme the heate cosumed me, and the frost on the night, and my slepe departed fro myne eyes.
- Ezek 34:8 : 8 Thus sayeth the LORDE God: As truly as I lyue, for so moch as my shepe are robbed, and deuoured off all the wylde beestes off the felde, hauynge no shepherde: and seynge that my shepherdes take no regarde off my shepe, but fede them selues only, and not my shepe:
- John 10:8-9 : 8 All they that are come before me, are theues and murthures. But ye shepe harkened not vnto them. 9 I am the dore. Yf eny man entre in by me, he shalbe saued, and shal go in and out, and fynde pasture, 10 A thefe cometh not, but for to steale, kyll, and destroye. I am come, yt they might haue life, and haue it more abundauntly. 11 I am a good shepherde. A good shepherde geueth his life for the shepe. 12 But an hyred seruaunt, which is not the shepherde, nether the shepe are his awne, seyth ye wolfe comynge, and leaueth ye shepe, and flyeth. And the wolfe catcheth & scatereth ye shepe.
- Exod 3:1-2 : 1 Moses kepte the shepe of Iethro his father in lawe prest of Madian, & droue the shepe on the backsyde of the wyldernes, and came to the mountayne of God, Horeb. 2 And the angell of ye LORDE appeared vnto him in a flame of fyre out of the bush. And he sawe that ye bush brent wt fyre, and yet was not consumed,
- 1 Sam 17:34-35 : 34 Dauid sayde vnto Saul: Thy seruaunt kepte his fathers shepe, and there came a lyon and a Bere, and caried awaye a shepe from the flocke, 35 then wente I forth after him, and smote him, and delyuered it out of his mouth. And whan he wolde haue bene vpon me, I toke him by his beerde, and smote him, and slewe him.
- Ps 78:70-71 : 70 And there he buylded his temple on hye, and layed ye foundacion of it like ye grounde, that it might perpetually endure. 71 He chose Dauid also his seruaut, and toke him awaye from the shepe foldes.
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- Luke 2:9-2012 verses85%
9 And beholde, ye angell of the LORDE stode by the, and ye brightnes of the LORDE shone rounde aboute them, and they were sore afrayed.
10 And the angell sayde vnto them: Be not afrayed. Beholde, I brynge you tydiges of greate ioye, which shall happen vnto all people:
11 for vnto you this daye is borne ye Sauioure, eue Christ ye LORDE, in the cite of Dauid.
12 And take this for a token: Ye shal fynde the babe swadled, and layed in a maunger.
13 And straight waye there was by the angell a multitude of heauenly hoostes, which praysed God, and sayde:
14 Glory be vnto God an hye, & peace vpon earth, and vnto men a good wyll.
15 And it fortuned wha the angels were gone from the in to heaue, the shepherdes sayde one to another: let vs go now euen vnto Bethleem, and se this thinge that is happened, which ye LORDE hath shewed vnto vs.
16 And they came wt haist, & founde both Mary and Ioseph, & the babe layed in ye maunger.
17 And whan they had sene it, they published abrode the sayenge, yt was tolde the of this childe.
18 And all they that herde it, wondred at the wordes, which the shepherdes had tolde them.
19 But Mary kepte all these sayenges, and pondred them in hir hert.
20 And the shepherdes returned, praysinge and laudinge God, for all that they had herde and sene, euen as it was tolde them.
- Luke 2:4-74 verses83%
4 Then Ioseph gat him vp also fro Galile, out of the cite of Nazareth, in to Iewry, to ye cite of Dauid, which is called Bethleem, (because he was of ye house and lynage of Dauid)
5 that he might be taxed wt Mary his spoused wife, which was wt childe.
6 And it fortuned whyle they were there, ye tyme was come, that she shulde be delyuered.
7 And she brought forth hir first begotte sonne, & wrapped him in swadlinge clothes, and layed him in a maunger: for they had els no rowme in the ynne.
- Matt 2:1-1414 verses75%
1 When Iesus was borne at Bethlee in Iury, in the tyme of Herode the kynge, Beholde, there came wyse men from the east to Ierusale,
2 saynge: Where is the new borne kynge of the Iues? We haue sene his starre in the east, and are come to worship him.
3 When Herode ye kynge had herde thys, he was troubled, & all Ierusale with hym,
4 and he gathered all the hye Prestes and Scribes of ye people, & axed of them, where Christ shulde be borne.
5 And they sayde vnto hym: at Bethleem in Iury. For thus it is written by the Prophet:
6 And thou Bethleem in the londe of Iury, art not the leest amonge the Princes of Iuda. For out of ye shall come vnto me the captayne, that shall gouerne my people Israel.
7 Then Herod preuely called the wyse men, and dyligently enquyred of them, what tyme the starre appered,
8 and sent them to Bethleem, sainge: Go, and searche dyligently for the chylde. And when ye haue founde hym, bringe me worde agayne, that I maye come and worshippe hym also.
9 When they had heard the kynge, they departed: and lo, the starre which they sawe in the east, went before them, tyll it came, and stode ouer the place where the chylde was.
10 When they sawe the starre, they were maruelously glad:
11 and went into the house, and found the chylde with Mary his mother, and kneled downe and worshipped hym, & opened ther treasures, and offred vnto hym gyftes: gold, franckynsence and myrre.
12 And after they were warned of God in a dreame, that they shuld not go ageine to Herod, they returned into their awne countre another waye.
13 When they were departed: beholde, the angell of the LORDE appered to Ioseph in a dreame, sayinge: aryse, and take the chylde and his mother, and flye into Egypte, and abyde there tyll I brynge the worde. For Herod wyl seke the chylde to destroye hym.
14 The he arose, and toke the chylde and his mother by night, and departed into Egypte,
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3 Their tentes shal they pitch rounde aboute her, and euery one shal fede with his honde.
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16 but they haue bene oure wall daye and nighte, as longe as we kepte the shepe by them.
- Matt 1:22-232 verses69%
22 All this was done, yt the thinge might, be fulfilled, which was spoken of the LORDE by the Prophet, saynge:
23 Beholde, a mayde shall be with chylde, and shall brynge forth a sonne, and they shall call his name Emanuel, which is by interpretacion, God wt vs.
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18 The byrth of Christ was on thys wyse: When his mother Mary was maried to Ioseph before they came together, she was foude with chylde by ye holy goost,
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20 Neuertheles whyle he thus thought, beholde, the angell of the LORDE appered vnto him in a dreame, saynge: Ioseph thou sonne of Dauid, feare not to take vnto the Mary thy wyfe. For that which is coceaued in her, is of ye holy goost.
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7 Therfore o ye shepherdes heare the worde off the LORDE,
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79 That he might geue light vnto them yt syt in darcknesse and shadowe of death, and to gyde oure fete in to the waye of peace.
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2 Neuertheles ye people that haue dwelt in darcknesse, shal se a greate light. As for them that dwel in the londe of the shadowe of death, vpon them shal the light shyne.
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32 and are kepers of catell (for they are men that deale with catell:) their small & greate catell, and all that they haue, haue they brought with them.
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26 And in the sixte moneth was the angell Gabriel sent from God in to a cite of Galile, called Nazareth,
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1 It fortuned at the same tyme, that there wete out a comaundement fro Augustus the Emperoure, that the whole worlde shulde be taxed.
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12 Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes. It shall come yet therto, that in this londe, which is voyde from men and catell, and in all the cities of the londe, there shal be set vp shepherdes cotages:
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9 Therfore heare ye worde off the LORDE, o ye shepherdes:
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32 A light for the lightenynge of the Heythe, & for the prayse of yi people of Israel.
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35 The shepherdes shall haue no waye to fle, and the rammes of the flocke shall not escape.
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7 All shepe and oxen, yee and the beastes of the felde.
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22 But whe he herde that Archelaus did raygne in Iury, in ye rowme of his father Herode, he was afrayde to go thither. Notwithstondinge after he was warned of God in a dreame, he turned asyde into the parties of Galile,
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19 When Herode was deed: beholde, an angell of the LORDE appered in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypte,
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6 And whan Herode wolde haue broughte him out vnto the people, in the same nighte slepte Peter betwene two soudiers, bounde with two cheynes. And the kepers before the dore kepte the preson.