This book was created and published on StoryJumper™

©2010 StoryJumper, Inc.   All rights reserved.

Publish your own children's book: 

www.storyjumper.com

Mary was a young woman who lived in the 

small town of Nazareth in Judea. She was 

very poor and she was betrothed to a 

carpenter named Joseph who also lived in 

Nazareth. At this time Judea was ruled by a 

man named Herod the great. In all of the 

words that could be used to describe him, 

great, is not one of them. He was a cruel 

ruler. He even killed his wives and children!

One day an angel of the Lord came to Mary. 

He told her that she was going have a baby by 

the power of God. Mary was shocked and 

scared. She was young and she was poor. Why 

did God chose her to carry his one and only 

son? After the angel left Mary went home and 

told Joseph and her parents what had 

happened. They didn't believe her and they 

were afraid that she would get stoned because 

that was the custom for woman who got 

pregnant before marriage. Joseph was very 

sad because he knew that to keep his honor he 

must divorce Mary.

That very same night God sent Joseph a dream saying that 

Mary was telling the truth and that he should still marry her 

and keep the child she was carrying and care for it as his 

own.

It also came to be that at this time the Roman Emperor had 

required a census. The Roman military had come and taken 

over Judea, and the Jews did not like being "occupied" by 

these foreigners.The census meant that all men had to take 

their families and go to the place that their ancestors were 

from to be registered. That meant that Joseph and Mary had 

to travel all the way to Bethlehem which was where Joseph 

was from. At this time Mary was already very pregnant.

So Mary and Joseph started to travel to 

Bethlehem. It was cold and hard but finally 

they made it. But when they got there it was 

so crowded and to make matters worse, Mary 

was about to have her baby! Mary and Joseph 

searched and searched but in the end all that 

they could find was a dark, cold cave where 

animals lived.

So there in a cave Jesus was born. The king of everything was born in 

a cave with animals. 

Meanwhile there were some shepherds out in the field watching over 

their sheep in the night. All of a sudden there was an angel before 

them. The shepherds were terrified. But then the angel said, "Do not 

be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all people. 

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ 

the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in 

cloths and lying in a manger" (Luke 2:10-12). So right away the 

shepherds went and found Jesus and worshiped him. And after they 

went out, they told lots of people what they saw. It should be noted 

that shepherds were the lowest part of society. And the fact that the 

angel appeared to shepherds just goes to show that everything about 

Jesus's birth was very humble. Even Jesus called himself "the Good 

Shepherd".

You've previewed 11 of 17 pages.

To read more: