![]() While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn,” (Luke 2:1-7). “Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child. Some might accuse Matthew of manufacturing Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem simply to have him fulfill this prophecy, but Luke likewise attests to Jesus’ birth in that city without any reference to prophecy: “Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born. They said to him, ‘In Bethlehem of Judea for this is what has been written by the prophet: “And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, Are by no means least among the leaders of Judah For out of you shall come forth a Ruler Who will shepherd My people Israel,”‘” (Matthew 2:4-6). “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him,'” (Matthew 2:1-2). Our primary sources for Jesus’ birth are the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Evidence from historical sources, archaeology, and long-standing tradition place the exact location of his birth in a cave just outside the town proper, beneath where the Church of the Nativity now stands. ![]() ![]() Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a small town a few miles from Jerusalem where King David was born (1 Samuel 17:12, etc.) and where the prophet Micah had foretold the Messiah would come (Micah 5:2).
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