The date of the birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any historical sources and the evidence is insufficient to allow for consistent dating. However, most biblical scholars and ancient hi
Nativity by Robert Campin (c. 1420), depicting the birth of Jesus during Spring
Dispute of Jesus and the Pharisees, by James Tissot, c. 1890
A mosaic dated to around AD 300 in the Tomb of the Julii, an apparently Christian tomb in the Vatican Necropolis. Most scholars believe it depicts Jesus as the sun god Sol / Helios.
The 'calculation hypothesis' was proposed by Louis Duchesne, a priest and historian of Christianity.
The Nativity or birth of Jesus is found in the biblical gospels of Matthew and Luke. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named
Date of the birth of Jesus
…biblical scholars and ancient historians believe that his birth date is around 6 to 4 BC. Two main approaches have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus: one based on the accounts in the Gospels of his birth with reference to King Herod's reign, and the other by subtracting his stated age of "about 30…
Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stom, c. 1650
The Nativity, an early 18th-century Russian Orthodox icon featuring common Orthodox iconographic elements of the Nativity by an anonymous Russian iconographer
A page from the 11th-century Bamberg Apocalypse showing Matthew 1:21
Angel Gabriel's Annunciation to Mary, by Murillo, c. 1660