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What Does it Mean ‘For unto Us a Child Is Born’?

Jesus was born to Mary and Joseph, but he was also born “unto us,” the spiritually bankrupt; the lost and broken. If Jesus was a regular child, the verse would read “unto Mary and Joseph a child was born.”

A Child with Two Fathers

Jesus was both Man and God, but he was raised by two real human beings. Russel Moore reminds us that “Jesus would have said ‘Abba’ first to Joseph.” He was obedient to his earthly parents, “obedience essential to his law-keeping on our behalf.” For a time, he lived the way all children live, but his purpose was unique.

Jesus became a carpenter like his father, but Scripture would become his greatest defense against darkness when Satan tempted him. “Jesus almost certainly learned those Hebrew Scriptures from Joseph as he listened to him at the woodworking table or stood beside him in the synagogue.”

After Passover, as Joseph and his family returned to Nazareth from Jerusalem on foot, something had changed for young Jesus. Mary and Joseph suddenly realized their eldest child was not with them.

They had to return to the city in search of their son, where they found him in his Father’s house (Luke 2:49). Mary asked Jesus why he had treated his