The Gospel of Luke, an account of Jesus’ life which was written during the same period as the Gospel of Matthew, has a different version of Jesus’ birth. The Gospel of Luke starts with Joseph ...

As a careful historian, Luke sets the scene of Jesus' birth in its political context by mentioning various rulers and places at the time (2:1-4). Luke's gospel begins with dramatic appearances of ...

If 1 B.C. was indeed the year Dionysius had in mind, then Jesus’ birth contradicts the Gospel sources. According to Matthew, Jesus is born “in Bethlehem in Judea, ...

The birth of Jesus at Christmas is all about hope, peace, joy and love, writes Lauren Green of Fox News this holiday season — here's why this matters and the origin stories of each.

“Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee,” Mark 1:9 explains, “and was baptized by John in the Jordan.” The Gospel of John, written later, draws only a tenuous link between Jesus and Bethlehem.

The Gospel of Matthew Jesus as the new Moses. ... There are a lot of elements in this story that resemble Moses' traditions, from the killing of the babies, in the birth narrative, ...

Luke's Gospel tells the most-beloved version of the story of Jesus' birth to the virgin Mary, from the angel Gabriel's visitation to the manger in Bethlehem.

While Salome is present for the birth of Jesus in this text, she was not actually “Jesus’ midwife.” Rather, this gospel depicts the actual midwife during Jesus’ birth, referred to only by ...

Of the four Gospels, two describe the virgin birth of Jesus, and two don’t mention it. The Gospel of Mark has people of Galilee referring to Jesus as the son of Mary, when the norm was to ...