When was Jesus born?

Question

Research that I have seen places the birth of Jesus around September or October. Not that of December.

Answer 1

He was born in spring, actually. The reason we celebrate Christmas on December 25 is that in the past we made up this holiday in order to overshadow a pagan winter festival.

Answer 2

Was Jesus Born In October

Answer 3

This question has been asked many times.
It was placed on Dec. 25 to compete with the Roman Pagan Holy day of Saturnalia by the Early developers of the emerging Christian Religion. But it falls after another Pagan Holy Day called Yule(the Winter Equinox Dec 20-23).
The approximate season can be figured by the fact that the Shepard's were still out in the fields tending their flocks. Which they would not be even in the middle east. the flocks would have been brought in from summer pasture and put in basement barns or other enclosures to protect them from the cold and roving predators.
Another key to figuring the date out . Would be to find out when the decree went out and reached all the people to go to their home cities and register for the census. How far away from their home city were they and how long might it have taken them to travel the distance.

Answer 4

In spring (hence the shepherds) and probably around 4 B.C.

The liturgical year is divided up into several seasons. In order for both Christmas and Easter to have their due time for consideration, they couldn't be in the same solar season. Because the crucifixion of Jesus (Good Friday) definitely took place in the spring, Christmas was placed in the winter.

Conveniently, most pagans already celebrated a holiday in what is now late December, so the church eventually appropriated that time for Christmas as well, blending Christian and Yule (winter solstice) traditions.

As far as I'm concerned, the actual date doesn't much matter. We celebrate M.L.K. day and Thanksgiving on randomly-chosen days, why not Christmas? :D

Answer 5

*** w93 12/15 pp. 3-4 Was Jesus Born in the Snow? ***

When thinking of Jesus’ birth, many people conjure up in their mind’s eye the emotionally appealing manger scene often displayed at Christmastime. There lies the baby Jesus, wrapped warmly and guarded by his mother, with snow softly blanketing the surrounding landscape. Does this popular view fit the Bible’s description of this historic event.
The Bible writer Luke relates a carefully documented account of Jesus’ birth: “There were also in that same country shepherds living out of doors and keeping watches in the night over their flocks. And suddenly Jehovah’s angel stood by them, and Jehovah’s glory gleamed around them, and they became very fearful. But the angel said to them: ‘Have no fear, for, look! I am declaring to you good news of a great joy that all the people will have, because there was born to you today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, in David’s city [Bethlehem].
And suddenly there came to be with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God and saying: ‘Glory in the heights above to God, and upon earth peace among men of goodwill.’”—Luke 2:8-14.

If you were to read this account to the average Israeli today and ask him what time of year this could be, he would likely answer, “Sometime between April and October.” Why? The answer is simple. From November to March is the cold, rainy season in Israel, and December 25 is certainly in the wintertime. Shepherds would not be living out-of-doors, keeping watch over their flocks in the fields at night. Considering the reports at the beginning of this article, you can well understand why. Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, is located in the higher elevations and is just a few miles from Jerusalem. Even in years when the weather is less extreme, it is quite cold there at night during the winter.—Micah 5:2; Luke 2:15.
There is little question that Jesus’ first followers, who were of Jewish background, did not celebrate his birthday. According to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, “the celebration of birthdays is unknown in traditional Jewish ritual.” Early Christians certainly would not have adopted such a celebration. Rather than celebrate his birth, they would respect Jesus’ command to memorialize his death, for which they had an incontestable date, namely, Nisan 14.—Luke 22:7, 15, 19, 20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26.*** w93 12/15 p. 7 Was Jesus Born in the Snow? ***

Not surprisingly, this same command is repeated for Christians at 2 Corinthians 6:14-18. In place of the Jewish nation that rejected Christ, his followers became the representatives of pure worship. They had the responsibility to help others come out of spiritual darkness and into the light of truth. (1 Peter 2:9, 10) How could they possibly do this if they mixed Christ’s teachings with customs and holidays of pagan origin?

As much as it might appeal to popular tastes, celebrating a “White Christmas” amounts to “touching the unclean thing.” (2 Corinthians 6:17) One who truly loves God and Christ must avoid it.

Beside the fact that its origins are in pagan celebrations, we have also seen that Christmas does not represent truth, since Jesus was born in October. Yes, no matter what scene might come up in one’s imagination, Jesus simply was not born in the snow.

Answer 6

There is no actual record of a date that says when Jesus was born. Dec 25 is a handpicked date by the Romans and orginally apagan festival. Did you know that the word Christmas does not exist in the Bible?

Answer 7

Some legends claim that the Christian "Christmas" celebration was invented to compete against the pagan celebrations of December. The 25th was not only sacred to the Romans but also the Persians whose religion Mithraism was one of Christianity's main rivals at that time. The Church eventually was successful in taking the merriment, lights, and gifts from the Saturanilia festival and bringing them to the celebration of Christmas. The exact day of the Christ child's birth has never been pinpointed. Traditions say that it has been celebrated since the year 98 AD. In 137 AD the Bishop of Rome ordered the birthday of the Christ Child celebrated as a solemn feast. In 350 AD another Bishop of Rome, Julius I, choose December 25th as the observance of Christmas.

Answer 8

no, He was NOT born in the spring. That's a sloppy assumption because they WRONGLY think that Jesus was exactly 33 years old when He died. He wasn't. He was 33 1/2 when He was killed. He died in early Spring, so going back 6 months lands you in late September/early October. NOT spring or winter.

Answer 9

never mind. it is officially said He was born on 25 December. Be happy and Merry Christmas! Trust Jesus!

Answer 10

actually the historians I know say that the catholic chruch decreed that dec 25 was the day to have Mass of christ.

as for october and november that is debateable.

What the bible says is that the shepherd were in the fields with their flocks. Generally this happens in the spring.
Of course the prophet of the mormon church Offers a suggestion that jesus was born in April and even gives a date because of a revelation he received from jesus.