Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus' birth at all. The Gospels' different views might be hard to ...
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Careful interpretation is needed. These slides discuss some of the issues involved. For instance, both Matthew and Luke date Jesus’ birth toward the end of the reign of King Herod the Great, who we ...
New York – Mahwah (Paulist Press) 1978] reached the four following conclusions on the identification of the "brothers and sisters" of Jesus mentioned in the New Testament: 1. The continued virginity ...
Joseph took Mary as his wife, but he did not have any sexual relations with her until after Jesus was born in order to fulfil Isaiah’s prophesy of a virgin birth. Isaiah had said, “A virgin ...
In Matthew’s narrative, Jesus’ birth is detected by foreign priests, the magi; in Luke it is lowly Jewish shepherds who first learn the news. In Matthew’s narrative, King Herod in Jerusalem hunts ...