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In Matthew's version of the birth of Jesus, Bethlehem was the home town of Joseph and Mary, as opposed to Luke's version which says that Nazareth was their home town. We can see this because the wise men found Jesus in a house, not a stable, and because when they were returning from Egypt they were returning to Bethlehem, but only turned aside and travelled to Nazareth because Joseph was warned to do so in a dream. So, for Matthew, there was no census and no journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem for that census.
In Matthew, the angel appeared to Joseph, not Mary, to tell of the impending birth of Jesus. Of course, it would not make sense for both accounts to be true - the angel appearing to Mary and to Joseph, each time as if the angel was bringing news for the very first time - and perhaps by chance, Matthew chose one parent to receive the news and Luke chose the other.
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, magi (wise men) came from the east, following a star that took them to Jerusalem, where they enquired of King Herod where to find the baby born to be king of the Jews. Herod's chief priests and scribes said that the baby must be in Bethlehem, and Herod told the wise men to go and search diligently for the baby and to report back when they had found him. Strangely, Herod did not offer to have the wise men accompanied to their destination, send spies or have them followed, so that even if the wise men did report back, it could have been unclear which unmarked house held the baby Jesus.
The star confirmed the advice of the chief priests and scribes by turning back on itself and leading the magi to Bethlehem, where it stood over the very house where Jesus lay. The wise men entered and fell down and worshipped Jesus, then presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The second dream in this story has the magi warned not to return to Herod, so they went back another way.
In yet another dream, an angel warned Joseph of impending danger, so he fled with Mary and Jesus to safety in Egypt. After the death of Herod, an angel appeared in a dream to Joseph, telling him to take his young family back to Bethlehem. On the way back, this time God warned Joseph in a dream that there was still danger in Judea, so he turned aside and travelled to Nazareth instead.
When Herod realised the wise men were not returning, he ordered all the baby boys under two years old in and around Bethlehem to be slaughtered, hoping to kill the baby born to be king of the Jews.
Matthew omits the story of the poor shepherds who, in Luke's Gospel, came to worship Jesus, no doubt because the author was unaware of this. This gospel also omits the presentation of Jesus at the Temple, and the stories of Simeon and Anna who recognised him as the future Messiah. The Temple story would have been entirely out of place in an account in which Herod sought to find and kill Jesus in Bethlehem.
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∙ 9y agoNo. Mark's Gospel was the first New Testament Gospel to be written, and it is quite likely that accounts of Jesus' birth had not yet been written. Uta Ranke-Heinemann (Putting Away Childish Things) says that the nativity accounts in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are, with respect to time, place, and circumstances, a collection of legends.
The first event that we find in Mark's Gospel, in the life of Jesus, is his baptism.
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∙ 14y agoNo. Mark's gospel begins with the ministry of John the Baptist and the baptism of Jesus.
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∙ 9y agoNo, Mark did not write about the birth of Jesus. Look in Matthew and Luke for the birth of Jesus.
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