12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a¹ manger.”  ‡

13 ^aAnd suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: ‡

15 So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.”

16 And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger.