Hymns Based on Luke 2:13

'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime is Jesse Edgar Middleton's 1926 English reimagining of the much older Wendat Christmas song usually called Jesous Ahatonhia or Iesous Ahatonnia.

“A Great and Mighty Wonder” is a Christmas hymn in which the incarnation is treated as mystery, proclamation, and praise.

Ah, Dearest Jesus, Holy Child is not an independent German hymn but a three-stanza English extract from the conclusion of Martin Luther's Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her.

Angels from the Realms of Glory is James Montgomery's Christmas hymn of proclamation and adoration, first published in 1816.

Angels We Have Heard on High is an English Christmas carol shaped from the French tradition of “Les anges dans nos campagnes.

Away in a Manger is a late nineteenth-century American Christmas carol that joins a simple Nativity scene with a child's prayer for the presence and care of Jesus.

Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light is the English form of one stanza from Johann Rist's 1641 German Christmas hymn Ermuntre dich, mein schwacher Geist.

Canticle of God's Glory is the title given in The United Methodist Hymnal to the ancient Gloria in Excelsis, the great Christian doxology that begins by taking up the angels' song at the birth of Jesus.

Gentle Mary Laid Her Child centers the Christmas mystery on a deliberate contrast: the infant resting in a manger appears lowly and easily overlooked, yet he is the Savior, the Son of God, and the King of glory.

Go, Tell It on the Mountain joins the Christmas story to a command of proclamation.

God Is With Us Alleluia is a hymnal display title for Graham Kendrick’s The Candle Song, also known by its opening words, Like a Candle Flame.

Good Christian Friends, Rejoice is a Christmas carol of concentrated gospel proclamation.

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is more than a retelling of Bethlehem.

He Is Born is an English-language form of the French Christmas carol Il est né, le divin Enfant.

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day is the hymnal form of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Christmas Bells, written during the American Civil War.

In Bethlehem 'Neath Starlit Skies is a Christmas carol by Grace May Stutsman that turns the Nativity into a scene of wonder and praise.

Infant Holy, Infant Lowly is an English rendering of the traditional Polish Christmas carol W Żłobie Leży.

It Came upon the Midnight Clear is a Christmas hymn about hearing heaven’s announcement of peace in a world that still knows exhaustion, injustice, and conflict.

Maker, in Whom We Live is Charles Wesley's hymn of praise to the Triune God.

O Come, All Ye Faithful is a Christmas hymn of invitation and adoration.

O Holy Night is the familiar English form of a French Christmas song that joins contemplation of Christ's birth with a widening vision of hope, worship, peace, and human solidarity.

O Little Town of Bethlehem is Phillips Brooks’s Christmas carol of quiet wonder, incarnation, and prayer.

O Sing a Song of Bethlehem follows the Gospel story through four places that mark the earthly life of Jesus: Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee, and Calvary.

On This Day Earth Shall Ring is an English Christmas paraphrase of the medieval Latin carol Personent hodie.

People, Look East is an Advent carol of active expectancy.

Silent Night, Holy Night has become so familiar that its quietness can obscure how distinctive it is.

This hymn presents praise as the fitting response to God’s work from creation to the fulfillment of Christian hope.

There's a Song in the Air is a Christmas hymn built from a sequence of vivid images: heavenly song, a star, a mother's prayer, a baby's cry, the manger, the nations, and the newborn King.

What Child Is This is a Christmas carol by William Chatterton Dix that leads worshipers from the visible humility of Bethlehem to a confession of Jesus as Christ the King.

While by My Sheep I Watched at Night, also widely known through its refrain as How Great Our Joy, is an English form of the old German Christmas carol Als ich bei meinen Schafen wacht.

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks is a close metrical paraphrase of Luke 2:8–14, following the night watch of the shepherds, the appearance of the angel, the announcement of Christ's birth, the sign of the child in the manger, and the praise of the heavenly host.

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night is unusual among familiar Christmas hymns because its strength lies not in imaginative expansion of the Nativity but in disciplined retelling.