Jesus A Newly Born Baby

Luke 2:1-7 and Matthew 1:18-25. The town was full of people because of the Roman census. There may well have been a Jewish feast happening at the same time. One of the few private places available for Jesus’ birth was where the animals were housed. After He was born Mary wraps Him in a soft cloth and places Him in the animals’ manger which serves as His crib, or cradle.

Possible dates of the birth of Jesus.

Background Reading:

The Birth of Jesus

2:1 Now in those days an order was published by Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 So all the people went to their hometowns to be registered.

4 Joseph, too, went up from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the City of David (called Bethlehem), because he was a descendant of the household and family of David. 5 He went there to be registered with Mary, who had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant.

6 While they were there, the time came for her to have her baby, 7 and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest quarters.
Luke 2:1-7

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The Birth of Jesus

1:18 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah happened in this way. When his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, before they lived together she was discovered to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit. 19 Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to disgrace her, decided to divorce her secretly.

20 After he had thought about it, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” he said, “don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he is the one who will save his people from their sins.”

22 Now all this happened to fulfill what was declared by the Lord through the prophet when he said,

23 “See, a virgin will become pregnant

and give birth to a son,

and they will name him Immanuel,”

which means, “God with us.” 24 When Joseph got up from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary as his wife. 25 He did not have marital relations with her until she had given birth to a son; and he named him Jesus.
Matthew 1:18-25

More Information:

Jesus was born as a baby and then had to grow up as any baby does to become an adult.

Jesus was born in a (Greek Phatane – feeding place) where animals lived, possibly only in a private place in a town where many were living in the open because they had come because of the Roman decree. They would all go back to their hometowns in a few days time.

It was the custom, at a birth of a child born in a house, for musicians to play at the birth of a boy, but to go away without playing if it was a girl. Jesus was born in a common courtyard, not a house. So no musicians were on hand, but God provided heavenly musicians, e.g. Angels, who told the shepherds, who then went to visit the newly born baby.


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