Heralded by all in the Jeudo-Ararabic Christian world as the most impoettant day, whats does Christmas day mean the most important event in out calendar when a child was born lowly in a manger but now of the last christmas shopping days and Black Fridays lol — not to mention the January sales lol 🙂 have we let go of him ?
Baby Jesus was born in Bethlehem, to Mary and Joseph, in a stable or cave, around 6-4 BC, according to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, a miraculous event celebrated by Christians at Christmas as the arrival of the Messiah, though the exact date isn’t specified in the Bible
“Peter Upon this Rock you will biuld my Church and even when Satan Calls at hitass gate i offer all my religious follouwers in Jerurselem and Rome the Keys to my Kingdom 🙂
Sorry got a bit spiritual there 🙂
- The shepherds
Yes, absolutely correct: the angels announced the birth first to shepherds “keeping watch over their flocks by night” (Luke 2:8–20).
That happened the same night Jesus was born. The shepherds went immediately to Bethlehem and found Mary, Joseph, and the baby in the manger. - The Magi (“wise men” from the East)
They did not arrive on the night of the birth, and probably not after just 3 days.- Matthew 2 says they saw the star “at its rising” (could have been months or even up to two years earlier).
- They traveled a very long distance (most scholars think from Persia or Babylonia, 800–1,200 km).
- When they finally reached Judea, they first went to Jerusalem and spoke with King Herod.
- Herod, alarmed, asked the priests when the star appeared, then later ordered all boys two years old and under killed “according to the time he had learned from the Magi” (Matthew 2:16).
- By the time the Magi reached Bethlehem, Mary and Joseph were living in a house (not the stable), and Jesus is called a “young child” (paidion), not a newborn (Matthew 2:11).
So the Magi probably arrived weeks, months, or even up to two years after the birth, not three days. That’s why in traditional nativity scenes we see both shepherds and Magi together, even though they came at different times. Artistically, we bring the whole story into one moment.
- The star
We still don’t know exactly what it was (a comet, a conjunction of planets, a supernova, or a miraculous sign), but it moved slowly enough to guide them over many months.
The important truth you said is still perfect:
He was born. Mary and Joseph loved him dearly. And heaven itself announced his coming, first to the humblest of people.
Quick Shout out to @Matt Wulenberg
