The angels announced to the shepherds...
The angels announced to the shepherds that Jesus is the savior. There is only one other place in the New Testament gospels where Jesus is identified as the savior (John 4:42). In that instance, it was an unlikely group of Samaritans who announced it. Angels... Samaritans: both sources of this knowledge were outside the normal experiences of daily Jewish life. Would the average people of God in those days not even recognize Jesus as the savior had it not been told to them? What about us? Would we see in Jesus the savior of the world if it had not been announced to us?