Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus' birth at all. The Gospels' different views might be hard to ...

Focusing on Jesus, Scripture begins to consider Mary in reference to Jesus ... Some scholars and theologians see Mary's question about the predicted birth (v. 34) as indicating her intention to remain ...

One important category is prophecy: Prophecy in the bible refers to the words spoken ... hundreds of years before Jesus was born. Often the messages would call people to obey God's law and live ...

Gabriel foretells two miraculous births: the birth of John the Baptist ... The Pharisees are a consistent foil to Jesus' message. The scribes (Scripture copyists), lawyers (experts in the law ...

Jesus, the lord and saviour would have gone by Yeshua or Yeshu, which were the two of the most common names in Galilee at the time.

These and many other questions will be the subject of homilies across many Christian traditions that celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, the Counsellor, the Lord, the King of Kings.