Session 4 Luke 2:1-15
Session 4 Luke 2:1-15
Invite a volunteer to read Luke 2:1-7,
as the group looks for signs of fulfilled promises and prophecy.
1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered. 2 This first registration took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. 3 So everyone went to be registered, each to his own town.
4 Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Beth-lehem, because he was of the house and family line of David, 5 to be registered along with Mary, who was en-gaged to him and was pregnant.
6 While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 7 Then she gave birth to her firstborn son, and she wrapped him tightly in cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
Guide the group to identify details in these verses
that fulfill a prophecy or a promise.
Invite a volunteer to record these on the board or a large sheet of paper.
Lead the group in using cross-references in their Bibles or on their devices
to connect these details with specific promises.
Direct attention back to the responses to the question at the beginning of the Group Time
about Jesus’s birthplace.
Call for the group to compare these details with what Luke described in his Gospel.
Circle the details that line up with Luke’s account.
Emphasize the humble setting of Jesus’s birth.