It’s always fun to note whom the Gospel writers are careful to include in the nativity stories.
- Shepherds: low-class working men (Luke 2.8 – 18)
- Magi: upper class, educated, foreigners (Matthew 2.1 – 12)
- NOT Herod and the upper class of Jerusalem (Matthew 2.3)
- Simeon: a regular guy (not a priest) who listened to God (we don’t know that he was old) (Luke 2.25 – 35)
- Anna: an old widow (Luke 2.36 – 38)
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. (1 Corinthians 1.26, 27, ESV)