NARRATOR: Today we are going to learn about the birth of Jesus ... That would be the baby Jesus! In the Bible, after Mary was told by the Angel Gabriel that she would have a child, Mary and ...

For instance, both Matthew and Luke date Jesus’ birth toward the end of the reign of King Herod the Great ... The episode seems more driven by Matthew’s theological interest in relating Jesus’ story ...

And that story has decisively shaped how Christians have viewed the origins of their church. It has also deeply influenced how the later church came to imagine the birth of Jesus. For it is Luke ...

It was his Bible ... story. There is no story of the annunciation, the virgin birth or the appearance of the angels to the shepherds. The resurrection is not even mentioned. Jefferson discovered a ...

Every December, millions of children ... story aren't in the Bible at all,' he wrote in an article for The Conversation. 'Although Christmas is a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus ...