There were shepherds "out in their fields, keeping watch over their flock" perhaps in route that very night to the Passover, shepherds who heard the angelic message: "... unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior..."And this shall be a "sign" unto you... "the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."
"They came with haste, and found" the babe swaddled in strips of cloth used for wrapping the dead, and cradled in a feeding trough, perhaps one of their own. That night, they alone understood this was "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world," and they BELIEVED and "made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds" (cf., Luke 2:8-20).
The "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" has already paid the debt for every sin we have ever committed or will yet comment (cf., 1John 2:2), BUT ONE MORE THING IS REQUIRED:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever BELIEVETH in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that BELIEVETH on him is not condemned: but he that BELIEVETH not is condemned already, because he hath not BELIEVED in the name of the only begotten Son of God" (John 3:16-18; emphasis added).
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