Luke 2:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And this will be a sign for you [by which you will recognize Him]: you will find [after searching] a Baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. [I Sam. 2:34; II Kings 19:29; Isa. 7:14.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And this is the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.

Common English Bible

¹² This is a sign for you: you will find a newborn baby wrapped snugly and lying in a manger.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And this will be a sign for you: you will find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."

Luke 2:12 Cross References

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son and shall name him Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:11

“Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”

Psalm 22:6

But I am a worm and not human, scorned by others and despised by the people.

2 Kings 20:8

Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?”

2 Kings 19:29

“And this shall be the sign for you: This year you shall eat what grows of itself and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

1 Samuel 2:34

The fate of your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.

Exodus 3:12

He said, “I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you that it is I who sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

Luke 2:7

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place in the guest room.

Luke 2:13

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying,