Luke 2:8

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Luke 2:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 While they were there, the time came for her Child to be born.

7 And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

8 And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.

9 Just then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid! For behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people:

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 31:39

I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.

Genesis 31:40

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Exodus 3:1

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Exodus 3:2

There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

1 Samuel 17:34

David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,

1 Samuel 17:35

I went after it, struck it down, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.

Psalms 78:70

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalms 78:71

from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.

Ezekiel 34:8

‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,

John 10:8

All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

John 10:9

I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

John 10:12

The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.