Is it in the Christmas story? · 0:47
Was there an innkeeper?
There is no innkeeper in the Bible. Luke says only that the guest room had no space for them. Nobody speaks, and nobody sends them away.
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Ask about the Christmas story.
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Every verse in the film is quoted from the Lumin Translation as it read when the film was made. The linked passages show the current text. The pictures are places and light only: no one in the story is drawn.
- 0:00The question Was there an innkeeper? Most Christmas plays have one.
- 0:06The short answer There is no innkeeper in the Bible. Nobody speaks, and nobody sends them away.
- 0:13What Luke says One line, and no one is turned away in it. “…laid him down in a manger, since the guest room had no space for them.” Luke 2:7
- 0:23Why the manger matters It is the sign the angel gives the shepherds. “…you will find an infant wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.” Luke 2:12
- 0:33The takeaway A full guest room and a manger. That is all Luke gives.
Music: “Away in a Manger” (tune by James R. Murray, 1887), arranged for this film. The tune is in the public domain. Instrument sounds: FluidR3 GM by Frank Wen, used under theCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
