All right then,
then Lord himself will give you the sign.
Look!
The virgin will conceive a child!
She will give birth to a son
and will call him Immanuel
(which means ‘God is with us’).

This is how Jesus the Messiah was born.
His mother,
Mary,
was engaged to be married to Joseph.
But before the marriage took place,
while she was still a virgin,
she became pregnant
through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Joseph,
to whom she was engaged,
was a righteous man
and did not want to disgrace her publicly,
so he decided to break the engagement quietly.
As he considered this,
an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.
“Joseph,
son of David,”
the angel said,
“do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife.
For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit.”
“And you,
my little son,
will be called
the prophet of the Most High,
because you will prepare the way for the Lord.
You will tell his people how to find salvation
through forgiveness of their sins.
Because of God’s tender mercy,
the morning light from heaven
is about to break upon us,
to give light to those who sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
and to guide us to the path of peace.”