Among the first witnesses of the Nativity were shepherds in the countryside outside Bethlehem. In future years this Child would be called many things—Good Shepherd, as well as Lamb of God. His identity would be announced to important people, who would torture and kill him.
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But in the beginning, it was to certain poor shepherds—among the poor and marginal of their day—tired from keeping watch, rank with the smell of their sheep, that the Gospel of great joy was first revealed.
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