{"id":3755,"date":"2021-12-22T03:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T03:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2021-12-24T18:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T18:56:37","slug":"the-christmas-story-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3755","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Story-Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE CHRISTMAS STORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em> Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Matthew 1:18-25<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CHRISTMAS STORY Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=3755\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Christmas Story-Part I<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}