Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago.

The reason that the Gospel writers seem so determined to have Jesus born in Bethlehem is found in an ancient Jewish prophecy. The Old Testament prophet Micah predicted that the Messiah would be ...

The prophet Micah predicted that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem of Judea, believed to be the city of King David. Professor Bond said that the tradition of Jesus being born in Bethlehem ...

In the Old Testament, the prophet Micah foretold, “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah ... weeks or months earlier – or later – Jesus would have been born elsewhere, thus negating the prophecy.

That Christ was born in Bethlehem is the unequivocal claim of Scripture (Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:1 ... even Luke’s account leads us to believe that Jesus was born somewhere out in the hill country ...

"But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah ... "Written some 500 years before the birth of Christ, Micah tells us not only where the Messiah would be born, but that he would be of eternal, everlasting ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago.

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...