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 to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Matt 1:21She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
• Acts 2:36“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
• Titus 3:4–7But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
• Matt 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
• John 4:42They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
• 1 Jn 5:1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
• Luke 1:43Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
• Phil 2:11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• Luke 2:4Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;
• Acts 5:31God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
• 1 Cor 15:47The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
• Acts 10:36The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ — he is Lord of all —
• Matt 1:16Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
• John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
• John 1:45Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
• John 6:69We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
• Luke 2:26It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
• John 1:41He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ ).
• Luke 20:41–44He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son?
• Col 2:6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
• Gal 4:4–5But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
• Acts 17:3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
• Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
• John 11:27She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”
• Phil 3:8Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
• Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
• 1 Jn 4:14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
• John 7:25–27Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
• 2 Tim 1:9–10who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• John 7:41Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
• Dan 9:24–26Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Matt 16:20Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.
• Luke 1:69and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
• Titus 2:10–14not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

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