I think I do and will say when and why when I award best answer which will be based on who is closest first.
2006-12-21 12:04:38 · 18 answers · asked by icheeknows 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
about 4 BC
2006-12-21 12:06:16 · answer #1 · answered by negimagi195 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may think you do -- but you can't *prove* that it's the actual date, so your speculation isn't any more valid than anyone else's.
Here's why: Matthew states that Herod was alive when jesus was born...since we know for a fact that Herod died in 4BCE, that means he had to have been born before 4BCE, right?
Ah, but now we have good old Luke: Luke says jesus was born when joseph went to bethlehem for the census and tax called by the Roman governor, which was in 6 CE. Whoops -- that's 10 years apart from Matthew's account...and long after Herod had died. Which one is correct?
Since there is no other record of jesus' birth other than the two completely conflicting gospel accounts, nobody knows for sure when jesus was born. And yes, that includes you :) Sorry.
2006-12-21 20:13:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus started his ministry at age 30 and died 3 1/2 years later. He died on Nisan 14, the Jewish Passover, in our modern calendar it falls on the last day of March.
Counting back 33 1/2 years will bring us to the last day of September or maybe first weeks of October, more or less. Jesus would have been 34 years old on September/October of 33 C.E.
2006-12-21 20:28:14 · answer #3 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THERE IS NO ACTUAL DATE GIVEN IN THE BIBLE.......The word does not occur in the bible, and it wasn't celebrated until about a.d.450, called the feast of the nativity. Matthew & Luke give us alot of info about Jesus' birth-but no hint of what time of year it was. frankly, we have no idea. the romans celebrated december 25 as the festival of "sol invictus", the unconquered sun. This was a winter holiday celebrating the lengthening of days. Even as Christianity spread, the old holiday persisted, so the church adopted it, claiming it as the birthday of the sun of Righteousness, Christ. The romans had the practice of exchanging gifts during their saturnalia (december 17-24), and the church chose to connect this with the gifts of the magi to Jesus...
2006-12-21 20:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by justmenothinelse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scholars place the years some where between 8 BC & 6 AD ( actual dates are not given in the bible ), and activities suggest a spring or summer birth .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ
2006-12-21 20:15:01 · answer #5 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the Bible it says that Jesus was born while Herod the Great was still the king of Judah. (See Luke chapter 1) Herod died in the year 4BC, so Jesus had to have been born sometime before that. Most scholars place the birth of Jesus in either the year 4BC or 6BC because the Bible also says that Cyrenius was governor of Syria at the time. Records found about 20 years ago state that he was in Syria in 6BC, returned to Rome for a time in 5BC, and was back in Syria in 4BC. He then returned to Roman and became a senator in 2BC, returning to Syria for a final time from 10-14AD. So to match the Bible, Jesus had to have been born in either 6 or 4AD.
If you go with the 4AD date, then it is also possible to explain the Christmas "star". As knowledge of astronomy was limited at the time, the word translated "star" in Matthew was applied to more than just stars. It was used for comets, meteors (falling stars), planets, etc. It was also used for what we call constellations today.
In 4BC there was what is called a triple conjunction. That is, three of the planets (Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars) all lined up with each other. In the course of a year, they would enter and leave this formation three times: in March, June and December.
It appears that the magi (or wise men) would have seen this conjunction in March, and consulted their books. There they would have found the prophecy given by one of the members (Balaam the son of Beor) in Numbers 22-24. (A column that includes this prophecy inscribed sometime before 900BC was found recently in Persia). He stated that when the "star" appears, a king would be born in Judah. When the star reappeared in June, they began to travel to Judah.
They arrived in Jerusalem (with the 3,000 soldiers who normally traveled with them - which is what panic the city in Matthew 2) and were redirected by Herod to Bethlehem. At the point (late December) the conjunction would have reappeared. Note that Matthew 2 says that after they had talked to Herod, the star reappeared. It all fits with a late December, 4BC date. (That type of conjuction would not occur again for another 496 years).
So the birth of Jesus appears to have happened in December of 4 AD according to details in the scriptures.
2006-12-21 20:13:45 · answer #6 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know. Don't care. Doesn't matter.
All that is important, is that He was born, Luke 2:8-20
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: (1 Cor 15:4 ).
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2006-12-21 20:23:43 · answer #7 · answered by Jimmy Dean 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sept 28,Mary found out she was pregnant on Dec 25,she went to see John the Baptist mom, and she was 6 months with John on the 25,
2006-12-21 20:11:03 · answer #8 · answered by purpleaura1 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it has to do with changing the calendars 3-4 B C He was born about the end of September when the shepherds still had their sheep out to pasture.
2006-12-21 20:10:19 · answer #9 · answered by patches 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First, you need to prove that such a person ever existed.
Read up on the ancient Egyptian god-man myth, and check the overwhelming parallels.
2006-12-21 21:49:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋