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The Church of the Nativity, or Basilica of the Nativity, [ a] is a basilica located in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine. The grotto holds a prominent religious significance to Christians of various denominations as the birthplace of Jesus. The grotto is the oldest site continuously used as a place of worship in Christianity, and the basilica is ...
Current scholars are divided on the actual birthplace of Jesus: some believe he was actually born in Nazareth, [37] [38] [39] while others still hold that he was born in Bethlehem. [40] Nonetheless, the tradition that Jesus was born in Bethlehem was prominent in the early church. [32]
The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Jesus or birth of Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judaea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.
In Bethlehem, the West Bank town revered as Jesus' birthplace, Christmas is all but canceled, in solidarity with Palestinians' suffering in Gaza.
By Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III, Adjunct Assistant Professor of the New Testament, Fuller Theological Seminary.Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center ...
Bethlehem is normally at its busiest at Christmas but this year war has scared away tourists and pilgrims from the Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, leaving hotels, restaurants ...
Matthew 2:1 states that "Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king". He also implies that Jesus could have been as much as two years old at the time of the visit of the Magi , because Herod ordered the murder of all boys up to the age of two years ( Massacre of the Innocents ), "in accordance with the time he had ...
Life of Jesus. The life of Jesus is primarily outlined in the four canonical gospels, which includes his genealogy and nativity, public ministry, passion, prophecy, resurrection and ascension. [ 2][ 3] Other parts of the New Testament – such as the Pauline epistles which were likely written within 20 to 30 years of each other, [ 4] and which ...