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Luke 2:12

And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”

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Luke 2:12 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 7:14 (11 votes) and Isaiah 53:1–2 (6 votes). 23 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Exodus 3 to Hebrews 1.

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Which verses does Luke 2:12 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Isaiah 7:1411 votes

    Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

  2. Isaiah 53:1–26 votes

    Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

  3. Isaiah 7:114 votes

    “Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”

  4. Psalm 22:63 votes

    But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

  5. 2 Kings 19:292 votes

    And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

  6. Exodus 3:121 vote

    “I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”

  7. 1 Samuel 2:341 vote

    And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.

  8. 1 Samuel 10:2–71 vote

    When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’ Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine. …

  9. 2 Kings 20:81 vote

    Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”

Which verses point to Luke 2:12?

The 10 strongest of 23.