The birth, or Nativity, of Jesus, is related in two of the four Gospels of the New Testament, those of Matthew and Luke.
At the time that the Gospels were being written in the latter half of the first century AD, the only known surviving eye-witness to the Nativity was Mary, the mother of Jesus- her husband Joseph having died some time before.
New Testament scholars accept that the events happened as described in the Gospels, but only Mary who, according to Luke had 'kept these things and pondered them in her heart' [Luke 2:19], was in a position to describe them.
G.A.Christodoulou, Religious Education Department, Knights Templar School, Baldock, Herts. |
