Most historians place the birth of Jesus in 4 BC or a little earlier. If Herod the Great died in 4 BC, as most hold, Matthew 2:16 puts the birth around 6 to 4 BC. The Gospels give no day or month. The Church chose 25 December to keep the feast of his birth; the Bible does not record it. The Gospels tell us when in the way people told time then: they name the men in power. Matthew says…

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