Luke 2:12 “And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddl…”

Luke 2:12

And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And this shalbe a signe to you, Yee shall finde the babe swadled, and laid in a cratch.

Darby Translation

And this is the sign to you: ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and lying in a manger.

Young's Literal Translation

and this [is] to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.'

Bible in Basic English

And this is the sign to you: you will see a young child folded in linen, in the place where the cattle have their food.

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Cross references

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

Psalm 22:6 Exodus 3:12 1 Samuel 10:2–7 Isaiah 53:1 Isaiah 53:2

Psalm 22:6 · BSB

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

Exodus 3:12 · BSB

“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”

1 Samuel 10:2–7 · BSB

When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys…

Isaiah 53:1 · BSB

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Isaiah 53:2 · BSB

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

Also

Isaiah 7:14 Isaiah 7:11 2 Kings 19:29 2 Kings 20:8 1 Samuel 2:34

Isaiah 7:14 · BSB

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:11 · BSB

“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”

2 Kings 19:29 · BSB

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat t…

2 Kings 20:8 · BSB

Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”

1 Samuel 2:34 · BSB

And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord!

13And suddenly there appeared with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying:

Read Luke 2