Luke 2:11

The angel declares that a Savior, Christ the Lord, is born in David's city. It matters because it identifies Jesus as the promised Messiah and divine Lord.

Cross-references · 36

• Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Matt 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
• Acts 2:36Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”
• Titus 3:4–7But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
• Matt 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
• John 4:42They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”
• 1 Jn 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
• Luke 1:43And why am I so honored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
• Phil 2:11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• Luke 2:4So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.
• Acts 5:31God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
• 1 Cor 15:47The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
• Acts 10:36He has sent this message to the people of Israel, proclaiming the gospel of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.
• Matt 1:16and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
• John 20:31But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
• John 1:45Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
• John 6:69We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.”
• Luke 2:26The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
• John 1:41He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).
• Luke 20:41–44Then Jesus declared, “How can it be said that the Christ is the Son of David?
• Col 2:6Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
• Gal 4:4–5But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Acts 17:3explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.
• Gen 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
• John 11:27“Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
• Phil 3:8More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
• Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
• 1 Jn 4:14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
• John 7:25–27Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
• 2 Tim 1:9–10He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
• John 7:41Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?
• Dan 9:24–26Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
• Matt 16:20Then He admonished the disciples not to tell anyone that He was the Christ.
• Luke 1:69He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
• Titus 2:10–14not stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior.

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