The exact location of the Pool of Siloam, where Jesus is said to have performed one of his most renowned miracles by healing ...

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 ...

A historian believes he’s found the location of Jesus Christ’s first miracle – and has newfound evidence to back it up.

The gospel begins with the joyous account of Jesus' birth and ends on the victorious note of Jesus' resurrection and ascension into heaven. ... As Luke's gospel ends, Jesus has departed in body.

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 ...

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 ...

Longtime readers of the New York Times know that opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof can be prone to outlandish claims. Years ago he promoted the amusing idea that the biblical Jesus favored big ...

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 ...

Jesus' birth might be dated to Spring 5 BC to align with the arrival of a comet. ... the Gospel writers themselves are certain that Jesus and Herod briefly lived at the same point in time.

John’s Gospel has a bit more on Jesus’s family, but no birth scene. When we first see Jesus in the Gospel of John, he is already both the Son of God and a man—that is to say, not an infant.

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 ...