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Jesus Religious Birth Story
Throughout the time of christianity there have been many different stories about how Jesus was born, but they were split into religious traditional stories and the historical story of his birth. On the religious side of Christianity, Jesus had different stories of his birth given from the gospels of Matthew and Luke. In the story given by the gospel of Matthew Jesus was born just before 4 BC towards the very end of Herod the Great's reign. It was said in the gospel of Matthew that the virgin Mary had been visited by an angel and became pregnant by the Holy Spirit. Mary's husband Joseph conceived the virgin mother and child in the small town of Bethlehem. When the child was born a star light up in the sky marking the spot of the small manger that the child was in. A group of three noble kings were visited by an angel telling them that the star in the sky marks the place of the son of God. The three kings traveled a long way to visit and bear gifts for the baby Jesus, Son of God. Both stories of Matthew and Luke say that Mary became pregnant by the Holy Spirit and not by a natural force, but the gospel of Luke goes into much more detail than the gospel of Matthew. The gospel of Luke sugests that Jesus was born at the time when Quirinius was the governer of Syria. In the gospel of Luke Mary had been visited by the angel many times telling her about this child and it was the angel who had told her that the child shall be called Jesus and known as the "Son of God." The other thing that is different in the gospel of Luke than in the gospel of Matthew is that instead of three noble kings that were told about the child, it was a shepard that traveled to the manger to visit the baby Jesus. The Christmas story of the birth of Jesus for Christians is a combination of the gospel of Matthew and Luke, having both the kings and shepard.

Jesus Historical Birth Story
Historical experts say though that the birth story of Jesus were made up and that Jesus was a real person with a not so special birth. The historical birth story of Jesus is that he was born at about 4 BC in the town of Nazareth to Mary and Joseph. It is said that he had been born at the time of King Herod's death and was baptized by John the Baptist. Jesus was believed to have been a Jew living in Judea with a normal Jew brought up life. Not much information can be given about the historical man known as Jesus because the only information gathered back during his time was all on his religious figure.

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This is a picture of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in the manger being visited by the three noble kings and an angel. (The Gospel of Matthew)

This is a picture of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in the manger being visited by the angel guiding the shepard. (The Gospel of Luke)