Every Christmas Eve, my dad read us the Christmas story, Luke chapters 1 and 2, from the big golden family Bible in the original King James.  I still hear his voice…I still hear the words.

If you’d like to read the full Christmas story, you can find two famous passages in the Gospels: Luke 1-2  and Matthew 1-2.

Here, though, are 20 of my favorite Christmas Bible verses from the Old and New Testaments, reminding us of the Savior, the season, the gift…

• Isaiah 7:14 NIV
  Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
• Isaiah 9:2 ESV
  The people who walked in darkness
      have seen a great light;
  those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,
      on them has light shone.
• Isaiah 9:6-7 NIV
  For to us a child is…