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#12 Chronology and Conclusion
This is the chronology: Birth of Jesus in Bethlehem on the 6th April 5 BC / the comet appears and the Magi set off from Persia. Visit of the shepherds to the stable in Bethlehem that night. Circumcision of Jesus eight days after birth on the 14th April – the day the sacrificial Passover lambs were chosen. Passover on the 19th and 20th April /the wise men arrive in Jerusalem for Passover and…
#11 Slaughter of the Innocents
Herod sent the Magi to Bethlehem and instructed them: “Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” (Matt. 2:8) This was trickery. His intentions are revealed in the verse Matthew 2:16: “When Herod realised that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and…
#10 Escape to Egypt when Nile not in Flood
The delay in reaching Bethlehem could have been caused by the wise men being held up by Herod in Jerusalem, but was the delay beneficial in some way and therefore serving the purposes of God? The Magi were warned in a dream not to return to Jerusalem and report to Herod (Matt 2:12).. The Magi depart for Persia via a different route. But they would also have warned Joseph and Mary to be careful.…
#9 Comets Point Down and Recede Away
The ability of comets to stop and point down to a town or city is explained in my article Was the Star of Bethlehem a Comet? (Article and blog posts posted on my website http://www.merryandtrue.com). Comets with tails have the tail streaming vertically upwards with the body of the comet pointing down to the earth just before they recede away from the earth and become invisible. By the time the…
#8 Long Delay in Jerusalem for Wise Men
The wise men appear to have packed up and gone to Jerusalem in haste, but there is a long delay until they reach Bethlehem. Philo of Alexandria, a 1st century AD Jewish scholar stated that the scholar of astronomy perceives “timely signs of coming events” since “the stars were made for signs” (De Opificio Mundi, 22). The time of appearance of a comet was deemed in the ancient world to mark the…
#7 The Lamb of God
The Jews expected the Messiah to be born in Nisan, the first month of the year in the Jewish calendar. He was indeed born at this time. This month marks the season of the Exodus from Egypt and the Passover celebration of it. Lamb of God is the title given to Jesus by John the Baptist. John the Baptist’s mother was Elizabeth, a relative of Mary who was a generation older than her. Elizabeth was…
#6 Flocks in Fields at Night
The shepherds mentioned in Luke chapter 2 are watching their flocks at night when angels appear to them on the hills to say that a Saviour has been born. The angels encourage the shepherds to go and find the new born baby; as a sign they will find him lying in a manger. At this time, sheep were only pastured out on the hills all night in the warmer months of the year between March and November.…
#5 Passover and Census
Central to the recounting and depiction of the Christmas story is that Jesus was born in a stable and laid in a manger. There was no other accommodation available in Bethlehem when Joseph and Mary arrived. This has been attributed to there being a census, but more importantly, I believe, it was because it was Passover. People arrived for Passover a week before so they could do purification…
#4 Passover 10 and 14 Nisan
We have now established that Jesus was born in March or April of 5 BC on the evidence of the appearance of a bright comet in 5 BC and the death of King Herod in 4 BC. Jesus was born in spring time of that year just before Passover. This was one of the points made in the article by Colin Humphreys. I am now going to take a closer look at the dates for Passover in 5 BC and make my own suggestions…
#3 Herod the Great's Reign 37-4 BC
Maybe you doubt that a comet recorded by the Han Dynasty in China for 5 BC was the sign of the Star of Bethlehem followed by the wise men from Persia to Bethlehem. Lets pursue another line of inquiry involving the Bible and Jewish history. Jesus was born in Bethlehem during the reign of Herod the Great. The ‘three kings’ first went to Herod’s palace in Jerusalem, the obvious place, to seek the…
#2 Bright Comet of 5 BC
In order to establish when Jesus was born in terms of month of the year, we first must know in which year he was born. The obvious answer is at the beginning of 1 AD, but this is not the correct answer. Two lines of evidence establish that Jesus was born several years before 1 AD. One line of evidence involves identifying the star of Bethlehem in scientific terms. The other line of evidence is…
#1 Jesus the Passover Lamb
Article written by Clare Merry October 2025 When was Jesus born? Is there any significance to the timing of his birth? What gave rise to the title ‘Lamb of God’? The 25th December We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on the 25th December. It is, however, generally agreed that Jesus was not actually born on this day. The first record of celebrating the birth of Christ is found in the Roman…
#9 Conclusion to the History of Christianity in Britain
Christianity in Britain has been through three main phases: firstly, an Orthodox Church phase; secondly, a Roman Catholic Church phase; and thirdly, a Protestant reformed churches phase. Christianity reached England very early on with missionaries sent from Judea. The missionaries were Joseph of Arimathea and Aristobulus, one of the 70 who became the first bishop of Roman Britain. They arrived…
#8 The Church of England
The formation of the Anglican Church in England was not just about King Henry VIII obtaining a divorce from Catherine of Aragon in order to marry Anne Boleyn, it was a much wider movement about reforming the church according to new theology and insights into what it is to be human. Its governing articles of faith are contained in the Thirty-nine Articles (1571) and the Book of Homilies which are…
#7 The Reformation and Protestant Churches
It was the printing press and literacy that allowed the Protestant Reformation to take place, and also the Protestant Reformation that promoted literacy. In England the Reformation occurred in 1534. In Germany it started in 1517 when Martin Luther (1483-1546) nailed his opinions about the sale of Indulgences to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg on the 31st October. Luther’s views are…
#6 Popular Catholicism of the Middle Ages
Between about 1350 and 1450 people in England ceased to think of themselves as being Norman or Saxon, and became English. Up until the Hundred Years War which ended in 1453 the ruling class were speaking Norman French, but when the French became the enemy, they started speaking Middle English. Joan of Arc had been called to put on armour and fight with the French, bringing them victory against…
#5 Roman Catholic Church of the Normans
Alongside building castles and keeps for security, the Normans built stone cathedrals, churches and abbeys. Many date from the 12th century. The Normans brought the Roman Catholic Church with clergy from Normandy to England. Saints were venerated on many alters around cathedrals and there were shrines with relics in crypts. Stained glass windows told the stories of Biblical figures, saints…