What day was Jesus born on?

Question

Merry Christmas!

Answer 1

Why Christmas day of course!

Merry Christmas to you too!

Answer 2

December 25

Answer 3

Jesus was born the month of Nisan which is between March and April. Dec 25th was a pagan holiday that the Romans used to celebrate called the solstice. When Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christian, he proclamed that religion to be the official religion of the empire and chose Dec 25th as the birth of Jesus because the pagans were already used to the festivities on that day.

Answer 4

Jesus was crucified at the age of 33 and a half years old.
He would have been 34 years old six months after his death and resurrection.
His death took place in the week of the Jewish passover holiday, which would have been March the earliest, and April the latest.
Assuming he was crucified in April, he would have turned 34 six months after, in October.

The exact date of Jesus' birth is not given in the new testament, so the reader is left having to figure it out on their own. In the interest of independent study, free inquiry, and freedom of thought, I rather think it's better that way.

As to why Jesus' birth is celebrated in december, there are all kinds of stories. I'm skeptical of literature on antiquity. I don't trust a lot of it.
The church of Rome could never have had the "thought police" type of authority to impose a holiday on a whole continent of people. If people didn't want to celebrate a day, they just would not have. Just like now.

There is no command in the new testament to celebrate Jesus' birthday, but there is no prohibition on celebrating it either.

By all means celebrate it today. Any other day too if you like. No one has the right to make that choice for you, except Jesus himself.


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Answer 5

It wasn't on Christmas Day (Dec. 25). It was in middle November sometime because people have studied how the weather was described in the passage in the Bible and that's not how it was in late December. December 25th is a holiday from the Catholics chosen from a long time ago and it just stuck as Christmas Day.

Answer 6

No one knows for certain. December 25th is an arbitray day chosen to celebrate Jesus' birth. Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year to you and yours.

Answer 7

no one really knows, but it was not on December 25. That date was picked by the church because they couldn't agree on a date when Jesus was born, so they picked a holiday which most Europeans at the time loved, a celebration of winter, where people feasted and gave each other gifts. This made the change easy.
But no one really knows when Jesus was born.

Answer 8

We know that Dec. 25th was celebrated as the birthday of Christ since at least 354 AD in Rome. It has been celebrated on that date ever since. It is plausible that the actual birthday is approximately December 25th, true enough, but it is based on a series of assumptions, all right or all wrong or partially right and partially wrong. Generally the 25 of Dec. thru the 6th of Jan are regarded as the window of His birth.

Answer 9

The exact day is not known but was probably in the spring or in the fall, depending on who you ask. December 25th was the birth date of Mithras and was celebrated in Rome at the same time as the rise of the Catholic church in Rome.

Answer 10

Nobody knows for certain the day. Some will argue that he was never born and is nothing more than a gnostic myth. However, we celebrate it on today. When it happened doesn't really matter.