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NASB | Luke 2:8 ¶ In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 2:8 ¶ In the same region there were shepherds staying out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. |
Subject: Why were Shepherds choosen |
Bible Note: Perhaps also, Dan, it is no mere accident that one of the best-known and most-beloved titles for Jesus is the Good Shepherd. And the most famous Psalm of them all is the 23rd, the Shepherd's Psalm. And you're quite right, the shepherd was on the lower rung of the economic and social ladder in the Paltestine of Jesus' time. How easy God made it for the poor of the earth to identify with His Son!...... I like the quote from Abraham Lincoln: "God must have loved the common people because He made so many of them." --Hank |