More than 2000 years ago there was a man known to be the greatest leader to ever live. His name was Jesus. Even to today people follow Him because of His great teachings. His teachings were His life, His faith, and his extravagant miracles He performed. This man lived in poverty and was reared in obscurity.
             The Birth of Jesus started in the days of Augustus Caesar, God sent an angel to Israel, to a virgin named Mary. The angel Gabriel tells the virgin Mary that she will have a son, Jesus, and that Jesus will be born of her and of the Holy Spirit of God. This event was foreshadowed 700 years earlier when the prophet Isaiah spoke of a virgin having a child who would be referred to as "Immanuel" which means "God with us." (Isaiah 7:14 NKJV) She was engaged to Joseph, a carpenter. The angel told Mary that by God's power, she would conceive and bear a son. When Joseph learned that she was pregnant, an angel instructed him to marry her. Joseph took her to Bethlehem to register for a census. While there, Mary gave birth to Jesus. She laid him in a manger because there was no room at the inn. Shepherds visited Jesus in Bethlehem. Later, wise men brought gifts to Jesus. They told Herod the Great, a wicked king, that Jesus would rule Israel. So Herod sent soldiers to kill the children in !
             Bethlehem. Warned by an angel, Joseph took his family to Egypt. After Herod died, they returned to Israel and raised Jesus in a town called Nazareth.
             When Jesus was about 12 years of age, He visited the Lord's Temple in Jerusalem, the holy city of the land of Israel. While at the Temple, Jesus spoke about God and about the Scriptures. His knowledge impressed the people who were in the Temple that day. Mary, Jesus' mother, did not know that Jesus was at the Temple. She searched for him. And when she found Him, Jesus said to her: "Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?"(Luke 2:49 NKJV).
             When Jesus...