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 ...

This Christmas Eve, let’s step into the story of Jesus’ birth as told by the author of the Gospel of Luke. It is only in Luke’s narrative of the Nativity that we encounter the shepherds, the ...

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 ...

The Gospel of Luke includes no flight to Egypt, no paranoid King Herod, no murder of children and no wise men visiting baby Jesus. Jesus is born in a manger because all the travelers overcrowded the ...