The Genealogy of Jesus.* 23q When Jesus began his ministry he was about thirty years of age. He was the son, as was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli,r 24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son

The Baptism of Jesus.* 21o After all the people had been baptized and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying,* heaven was opened 22* p and the holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from

The Preaching of John the Baptist.* 1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,* when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,a and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis,

The Boy Jesus in the Temple * 41 Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover,p 42 and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. 43 After they had completed

The Return to Nazareth 39 When they had fulfilled all the prescriptions of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.n 40 The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the

The Presentation in the Temple. 22* When the days were completed for their purification* according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,h 23 just as it is written in the law of

The Circumcision and Naming of Jesus 21 When eight days were completed for his circumcision,* he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.g   When we commit to reading (at least)

The Angels and the Shepherds 8*  Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping the night watch over their flock. 9 The angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord

Again, this reading is taken from the USCCB’s NABRE (New American Bible Revised Edition) and, if you’re paying close attention you might say “hey; you didn’t give us the whole pericope!”  True; The NABRE includes seven more verses than I’ve

So yesterday I tried to give you the idea that a seemingly innocuous passage of scripture is really telling us that something big is going on.  And, I said, today we would start to know what that something is. Today’s