The Christmas story is told at the start of Matthew and of Luke. Matthew tells it in 1:18–2:23 and Luke in 1:5–2:40, 147 verses between them. John 1:1–14 says what the birth means without telling it, and Mark begins with Jesus already grown, at the river Jordan. Almost every figure in a Christmas nativity scene comes from those few pages. Luke gives us Mary and Joseph, the child in the manger, the angels and the shepherds; Matthew gives us the…

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