When was Jesus actually born?

Question

Okay, so I was on Wikipedia and looked up my birthday, September 29th. Under births it said that Jesus was most likely born on that day. I took me a while to make the [dis]connection but I soon became aware of Christmas, which is not September 29th, but still manages to pertain itself as the day of the birth of Christ. So, which is right? I've checked both the Wiki on Jesus and on Christmas and their are no reports that even mention the month of September. So, I'm pretty confused. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Oct. 1st, 2 bce.
Compare the biblical calender to the Gregorian calender and you come up with Oct. 1st, 2 bce.
Using the Julian calender, you have Sept 29th.

Answer 2

We can also tell from Luke's Gospel that Jesus had been born in early evening, for
Luke says the shepherds were keeping watch by night, but still had time to go into town
and tell the people what they had seen earlier that evening. People rose early with the sun
in those days, and would have been asleep by 9 or 10 pm. Therefore, the birth had taken
place no later than 8 pm, and probably before 7 pm. Yet Luke says it happened at night,
which means after sunset--surely after 6 pm in September. Hence, it follows that Jesus
was born within a few minutes of 6:30-7:30 pm on the evening of September 11th, 3 BC.

Answer 3

Jesus was not born on December 25. The early Catholic church put it on the calendar at year's end because they wanted a christian celebration to counter the pagan celebrations of the same date. Like God really needs man to compete for Him.

Not sure how Sept 29 came about, but it is most likely Jesus was born in early autumn, given that shepards were still in the fields with their sheep and Mary gave birth in an a barn or cave – essentially outside.

Answer 4

The Lord Jesus Christ was born into mortality on 6 April, probably calculated as 1 AD.

Answer 5

Jesus died in April (nonetheless this has yet to be shown) and replaced into 33 and a 0.5 while he died. 6 months previous to April is October so he could have been born then if his age of death is sweet. Christians in basic terms say he replaced into born on the twenty 5th December through fact while Christianity first shaped they tried changing Pagans with the aid of telling them their savior and the Pagan god have been a similar individual and that their start replaced into on the twenty 5th December. Utter crap of direction

Answer 6

Jesus was born in September, according to descriptions in the bible.
and that would make his conception in late December.
so by celebrating Christmas, we are not actually celebrating to birth of Christ, but his conception.

Answer 7

Nobody knows when he was born poeple just make up stuff, and Christmas poeple just made a date he was not achully born then. well he could have been but people don't achully know.

Answer 8

Using astronomical, historical, and biblical references, sometime in September 3 B.C., but before September 26th.

"So when was Christ born? We know from Biblical references that Christ was born six months after his cousin John the Baptist. Again from Biblical references we can pin down the date of John’s birth. John’s father, Zachariah, was in the temple performing his priestly duties when an angel visited him in a vision and informed him that his wife Elizabeth, who was barren and on in years, would soon conceive a son. We know from Luke that Zachariah was responsible for the eighth of the 24 Priestly Courses of the Jewish Faith. Each of the 24 courses lasted a week and were repeated twice during the year. The Jews used a luni-solar calendar of 51 weeks - the other three weeks of the year were for the three major Jewish religious celebrations - Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. Because the calendar only had 51 weeks, the Jews had to add 30 days at prescribed intervals so that the calendar kept pace with the solar year.

In the case of Zachariah, he was officiating in the 8th course, or 8th week of the Jewish year, when the angel paid him a visit. The priestly courses probably started their serving in the springtime month of Nisan - the first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year. This is a chronological clue - it tells us the general time of year that Zachariah was serving. We also know that he was not serving at a festival period because the priests suspended their normal weekly duties and all served together during the major Jewish high holy seasons.

Assuming that the springtime month of Nisan began that year (it varied with the state of the crops - in 4 BC it began after midnight on March 28 - March 29) on what corresponds to the end of March of our current calendar, then Zacharias was visited by the angel, and his wife became pregnant, in the month of June. Remember also that Passover, one of the High Holy weeks of the Jews, occurred during the time interval from late March to June - putting off Zacharias’ priestly course for one week. Assuming a full-term pregnancy of 9 months, Elizabeth gave birth to John sometime in March. This means Jesus’ birth would have taken place the following September.

But in which year? And what if Zacharias was serving his priestly course during his second time of the year, in December? This would mean that Elizabeth gave birth to John in September, and Jesus was born the following March. In fact, many modern historians and theologians readily accept a spring date for the birth of Christ because of the passage in Luke regarding the angel who appeared to shepherds guarding their flocks in the field. Several of these historians assert that the only time shepherds were in the fields with the flocks was spring, which was lambing season. The lambs were an important part of the feast of the Passover. However, flocks of sheep were habitually kept in the fields, from early March until late October, and sometimes all year round. It does not seem reasonable that the shepherds would leave them unattended at all, as important as they were to Passover, where they would be subject to predators and theft. In other words, the sheep provide us with no real clue as to the time of the Nativity.

Again let us go back to the census of Caesar Augustus - the oath required of all people in the Roman empire and client kingdoms, which began in the late summer or early autumn of 3 BC. If this was indeed the census that brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem, and it seems quite probable that it was, than Jesus had to have been born sometime around this period. We know from the Biblical stories of the Nativity that Mary was “great with child” - in other words, close to full-term. We know that once Joseph and Mary arrived at their destination, Bethlehem, she went into labor and delivered. This makes September of 3 BC the most likely month of Jesus’ birth, with John being born in March of 3 BC. We know also that Jesus’ birth had to occur before September 26 of that year, because the High Holy week of Tabernacles was from September 26 to October 3 in 3 BC; this required Jews to be in Jerusalem to celebrate this holy festival. Yet Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem when Jesus was born."

Answer 9

I heard that he was actually born in June. Who knows for sure though, or at least at this moment in time?!? God bless!!!!