What is the story of Jesus being born?

Answer 1

There are two quite different stories of the birth of Jesus, one in Matthew's Gospel and one in Luke's Gospel.

Matthew's story of the birth of Jesus has Bethlehem as the home town of Joseph and Mary. After Jesus was born, magi("wise men") came from the east following a star to Jerusalem, where they asked King Herod to see the baby born to be king. Herod feared for his kingdom and planned to kill Jesus, so Joseph and Mary fled with Jesus to Egypt until the death of Herod, when the began to return home, but being warned in a dream turned aside and travelled to Nazareth in Galilee instead.

This nativity account seeks to draw a parallel between Jesus and Moses. Joseph's father is called Jacob, just as in the Old Testament (in Luke's Gospel, he is called Heli). Herod's "Slaughter of the Innocents", the killing of all the boys under two years old, parallels the pharaoh's slaughter of all the boys under two years old in the time of Moses. And just as Moses left Egypt to save his people, so Jesus left Egypt to save his people.

A second meaning in Matthew's infancy account is in the visit of the magi. The magi were priests ofthe Zoroastrian god, Ahura Mazda. The Zoroastrians believed that the Saoshyant would be born of a virgin and come to earth to defeat evil. The author refers to Isaiah 7:14 as evidence that the virginity of Mary had been prophesied. But Isaiah 7:14, in the original Hebrew, actually says, "the young woman", and the young woman in question did have a child a few verses later in Isaiah. The problem arose in Matthew's reliance on a mistranslation in the Septuagint, a flawed early Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures.

Luke's story attempts to place the birth of Jesus in a historical context. Writing probably more than a hundred years after the death of King Herod, the author not only said that Jesus was born during the reign of King Herod but also at the time of the census that took place in the time of Quirinius. The census of Quirinius did not actually take place until 6 CE, more than ten years after the death of Herod, leading Raymond E. Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament) to say that, although Luke likes to set his Christian drama in the context of well-known events from antiquity, sometimes he does so inaccurately.

Luke's use of the poor shepherds who visited Jesus in the humble manger shows the author's concern for the poor of the world, a theme that would repeat throughout this gospel.

Answer 2

The story of 'baby Jesus', when he was born on earth, can be found in The Bible, at (Matthew 1:18-2:23)and (Luke 2:1-20). He was born in Bethlehem of Judea, taken to Egypt, then to Nazareth in Galilee; ALL of this in fulfillment of prophecy. (Matthew 2:4-6, 14, 15, 19-23; Micah 5:2; Hosea 11:1; Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5). Jesus' adoptive father, Joseph, was a carpenter (Matthew 13:55) and of little means. (Luke 2:22-24 /Leviticus 12:8.)

But Jesus' story began long before this, where he had a pre-human existence in heaven BEFORE being born on earth(John 3:13; 6:38, 62; 8:23, 42, 58) (Colossians 1:15; Revelation 3:14)

Answer 3

The Gospels are the story of Jesus, from His birth to His death and they teach us that He was the true Messiah, the Son of God, and that he died on the cross of Calvary for our sins and that He was buried, and that He was risen the third day. The meaning is that God the Father in heaven wants people upon the earth to return to Him. He created mankind and sin separated man from God. Jesus was the sacrifice who made it possible for man to return to God. You can return to God if in your heart you believe in Jesus and accept Him as your Savior. According to the bible you have two choices. One, you can ignore Jesus and suffer an eternity in the "Lake of Fire" (Revelation 20:11-15) or two you can accept Jesus as your Savior and spend and eternity in heaven with Him. The choice is yours. There is no middle ground.

Answer 4

Jesus was born to save the world of its sin.

Answer 5

Look it up in Matthew 2-3