Immanuel: "God With Us"

It was not to the religious officials that Jesus was first made known but to the common man. Later, of Jesus it would be said, “Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them” (Luke 15:1, 2). Later it would be said of the Saviour upon this December night in Bethlehem, that “the common people heard him gladly” (Mark 12:37).