Luke 2:9 - Plain English Version

⁹ Suddenly, an angel messenger from God stood there with them, and bright light from God was shining all around them, and they were very frightened.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord flashed and shone all about them, and they were terribly frightened.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

Common English Bible

⁹ The Lord’s angel stood before them, the Lord’s glory shone around them, and they were terrified.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And behold, an Angel of the Lord stood near them, and the brightness of God shone around them, and they were struck with a great fear.

Luke 2:9 Cross References

Matthew 1:20

While Joseph thought about that, he went to sleep and had a dream. He saw an angel messenger from God. The angel said, “Joseph, you are from the family of David. Look, you can go ahead and marry Mary. Don’t be too frightened to do that. You see, her baby is from the Holy Spirit, not from another man.

Luke 1:28

Gabriel came to Mary and said, “Hello, Mary. God loves you and is good to you. He is here with you now, and he will do something good for you.”

Luke 2:8

Not far away, on that same night, some men were out in the grass lands looking after their sheep.

John 12:41

Isaiah wrote those things about Jesus, because a long time ago, God showed Isaiah that his special man is really powerful.

Acts 12:7

Suddenly, there was a bright light in that little room in the jail, and one of God’s angel messengers came and stood in front of Peter. That angel touched his side to wake him up, and said, “Quick. Get up.” And the chains fell off Peter’s hands.

Acts 27:23

You see, I work for God, and last night he sent one of his angel messengers to me. He came and stood beside me,

Acts 5:19

But that night, God sent an angel messenger to Jesus’s special workers, and he opened the jail doors and let them out.

1 Timothy 3:16

God shows us something about Jesus that is really true, and nobody can argue with it. He shows us that Jesus is really great, He came in a man’s body for people to see, but the Holy Spirit showed us that he was really from God. And God’s angel messengers saw him too. The people that believed in him told other people everywhere about him. They even went to other countries to tell people about him, and people all over the world believed in him. And God took him up into heaven.