Birth of Christ...?

Question

can someone tell me about the birth of Christ? (as in where, when, who was there, why, etc.) i need to know in order to interpret a religious painting =D thanks!!!

Answer 1

He was born in bethlehelm to mary and joseph. Mary had been told 9 months earlier through the angel gabreil that she would innaculately bare a son who would be the savior and take aways the sins of the world. He would be what the Jewish called the messiah and open the gates to heaven. The couple traveled to bethlehelm because of a census, that required them to go to the town that their family was from. Because so many people had traveled to bethlehelm there was no place to stay. It was late and mary was in labor so they stayed in a stable, where she gave birth. At this same time, there where shepherds in a field nearby. An angel appheared to them and informed them that the messiah had been born and told them where to find him. They quickly went and worshiped baby Jesus. Also around this time 3 kings from asia saw a gaint bright star in the sky. They followed the star and after many months it led them to jesus, and they brought him gifts. Herold the king had gotton word that this messiah was born and wanted to kill him because he saw it as a threat to his thorn. He ordered all the babies in bethlehem to be killed. However, joseph had been warned in a dream to leave bethlehem, so the family fled to egypt.
There you go....thats the jesus story...hope it helps....if you want more read the beginning of LUKE in the Bible.

Answer 2

It would 'help' if you told us the 'title' of the painting and the 'painter' who did the work. No one 'really knows for sure' exactly when Christ was born, or exactly where ... there is a place in the city of Bethlehem that is a 'cave' that many people 'call' Jesus' 'birthplace' ... and the 'story of Christ's birth' in the Bible are just that ... story, not FACT ... so maybe you should 'interpret' the 'painting' of Christ's birth from that ... that 'no one REALLY KNOWS the facts' but that many painters 'tried to paint Christ's birth' because it is an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT PART OF THE ;Story of Jesus' ... it's a story about the end of 'winter' (darkness, despair) and the 'spring' of life ... 'new birth' in Heaven as well as 'new birth' here on Earth. Christ's 'birth' in a 'manger' (the thing farm animals eat out of in the stable) in a 'wooden stable' or a cave is 'important' because of how 'humble' that place is and how 'inappropriate' it was for a Jewish woman to give birth to her child there ... and it also shows 'hov far Christ can take each of us' to Heaven ... he had to 'go farther' and 'be better' so that the 'rest of us who sin' don't have to 'worry' about 'getting to Heaven' as long as we 'believe' in Jesus Christ.

Answer 3

It's in the Bible. Read Luke 2.

Here's the highlights

Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to comply with a Roman decree that a census had to be take and people were supposed to go to their ancestral home for this.

On the night they arrived, there were so many travelers, they could not find an inn where they could stay. One inn keeper offered a corner of his stable or more likely a cave. Jesus was born there.

Angels told of the even to shepherds who went to pay their respects to the King and offer congratulations to the proud parents.

It is not known exactly when but sometime within about 2 years the wise men (number of wise men unknown) arrived looking for the King. They went to King Herod looking for the savior but being a wicked man, he did not know that a new King had even been born.

The wise men eventually found the Christ child. They did not return to Herod as Herod had asked. They were told in a dream to leave a different way and not tell Herod.

Joseph and Mary were told in a dream to flea to Egypt.

Herod attempted to kill all male children under a certain age. Joseph, Mary and Jesus were already gone.

Answer 4

Matthew and Luke both record an outstanding miracle concerning the birth of Jesus—he was born of a virgin. Matthew shows that this miracle fulfilled a prophecy uttered centuries before by Isaiah. (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:22, 23) Luke explains that Jesus was born in Bethlehem because a registration instituted by Caesar forced Joseph and Mary to travel there. (See box on page 7.) That Jesus was born in Bethlehem was significant. Centuries earlier, the prophet Micah had foretold that the Messiah would be from this seemingly insignificant town near Jerusalem.—Micah 5:2.

The night of Jesus’ birth has become famous as the basis for Nativity scenes. However, the real story is quite different from the one so often depicted. Historian Luke, who tells us of the census that brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem, also tells us of the shepherds’ spending that important night out-of-doors with their flocks. These two circumstances have led many Bible researchers to conclude that Jesus could not have been born during December. They point out the unlikelihood of Caesar’s forcing the volatile Jews to trek to their home cities during the cold and rainy season, which could further enrage a rebellious people. It is equally unlikely, scholars note, that shepherds would have been living out-of-doors with their flocks in such inclement weather.
Why was the custom so easily accepted by those calling themselves Christians many centuries after Christ? The New Encyclopædia Britannica sheds further light on the subject: “The traditional customs connected with Christmas have developed from several sources as a result of the coincidence of the celebration of the birth of Christ with the pagan agricultural and solar observances at midwinter. In the Roman world the Saturnalia (December 17) was a time of merrymaking and exchange of gifts. December 25 was also regarded as the birth date of the Iranian mystery god Mithra, the Sun of Righteousness.”
Was all of this really a “coincidence”? By no means! It is a fact of history that in the fourth century C.E., under Emperor Constantine, the Roman Empire mutated from persecutor of Christianity to sponsor of “Christianity” as an accepted religion. As more of the general populace, who lacked background in the true meaning of Christianity, adopted this new faith, they began celebrating their familiar pagan festivals with newfound “Christian” titles. What date could be more appropriate to the celebrating of the birth of Christ than December 25, which was already marked as the birthdate of “the Sun of Righteousness”?

Answer 5

In all likelihood, the only ones present at the actual birth were Mary (of course), a midwife and her female assistant. Men were typically prevented from entering the birth chamber at that time in history.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, as opposed to another town named Bethlehem in an area owned by the Tribe of Benjamin.

Why was He born? Read Isaiah 9:6-7 and Isaiah 53, and the answer will be given to you.

Answer 6

1847. Communist manifesto published.