圣誕節英語小故事：圣誕節關于耶穌基督出生的故事（中英雙語）
according to the bible, the holy book of christians, god decided to allow his only son, jesus christ, to be born to a human mother and live on earth so that people could understand god better and learn to love god and each other more. "christmas"- meaning "celebration of christ "- honors the time when jesus was born to a young jewish woman mary.
mary was engaged to be married to joseph, a carpenter, but before they came together, she was found to be with child. because joseph, her husband, was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. but after he had considered this, an angel of the lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "do not be afraid to take mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the holy spirit. she will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
【圣誕節的故事】
耶穌基督出生的故事已經流傳了多個世紀，主要根據基督教福音書中的馬太福音和路加福音而來。馬可福音及約翰福音沒有著重記載耶穌的童年生活，路加醫師在符類福音（馬太、馬可、路加）的作者中最嚴，比較詳盡地介紹了耶穌早期的生活細節。
路加描述說，瑪麗婭年幼時收到天使加百列的消息，身為處女的她藉由圣靈受孕。當時羅馬皇帝奧古斯都有下旨，叫天下人民各歸各城人口普查，于是她和丈夫約瑟離開在加利利的拿撒勒城上猶太去,這是居里扭作敘利亞總督之后，頭一次報名上冊，途中他們經過約瑟祖先大衛生活的伯利恒城，在伯利恒因為在鄉村旅店已經沒有空房，他們只好寄宿在旅舍外面，瑪利亞在那兒的馬廄里生下了耶穌，這里的"馬廄"根據圣經版本不同而不同，但通常是一個喂食槽或是個畜欄。基督出生在伯利恒，伯利恒是約瑟祖先大衛王的家，這就實現了以色列的預言。后來耶穌家逃到埃及是為了逃避憤怒的大希律王的追殺，因為希律王聽說了在伯利恒出生一個新的猶太王。當希律王死后，新的猶太王繼位，他并不認識耶穌和他的父母，因此耶穌的生命就沒有了威脅，這樣耶穌和家人返回了以色列，他們定居在拿撒勒。
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