Devine Scripture

Luke 2:12

Luke chapter 2 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.11for there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.

v.12This passage

v.13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Samuel 10:2

    When thou art departed from me to-day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found; and, lo, thy father hath left off caring for the asses, and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

  • Isaiah 53:1

    Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?

  • Isaiah 7:11

    Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

  • 1 Samuel 2:34

    And this shall be the sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.

  • 2 Kings 19:29

    And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

  • Psalms 22:6

    But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.