WHERE CAN WE FIND OUT ALL ABOUT JESUS?

You search the Scriptures, for you think in them you

have everlasting life. And they are the ones witnessing

concerning Me. John 5:39 LITV. Luke 24:44

The announcement of

the conception of Jesus

The

Timing

of

the

Annunciation

of

the Conception of Jesus

In Luke 1:26, the New Testament is crystal clear on the exact month when Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was chosen to carry a special Being from the abode of God. It was in the sixth month of the Jewish Calendar, a month which is not the same in the Julian, later Gregorian Calendar. The ATS Bible Dictionary helps us place the Hebrew sixth month in the Julian Calendar. Note, though, that the Jewish day is a divided into an evening, sunset, night. morning, afternoon, and evening to start the next day. Based upon the standard nine months [gestation] for birth, we can accurately calculate the month of birth of Jesus in the Jewish Calendar, which is the tenth month in the Jewish Calendar after the nine months long pregnancy. Jesus could not have been born prematurely. Anyone can stand behind that statement not because we were there, but based on the requirement of a perfect lamb for the sacrifice and common sense. If the Julian was the same as the Hebrew Calendar, and Jesus was conceived in the sixth month of the Julian Calendar, He would have been delivered, in keeping with the Julian annunciation month, on the sixteenth (6+9) month or in the fourth Julian month April, after the nine months pregnancy. If the sixteenth month of delivery would have been April in the Julian Calendar, that is a month far away from December. But, the ‘sixth month’ time mentioned in the New Testament is in the Jewish Calendar. The religious Jewish calendar did not depart from the custom of beginning the year in Spring or the month of Abib or Nisan. As the ATS Bible Dictionary defines it, the ‘sixth month’ in the Jewish Calendar roughly falls on April, (or end of March), which roughly matches the beginning of the Jewish Calendar in the Julian Calendar. Thus, if the first month of the Jewish Calendar falls on end of March towards the beginning of April in our Julian Calendar, the Jewish sixth month in the New Testament falls on end of August towards beginning of September in the Julian Calendar which was in use at the time of conception. After a nine-months long pregnancy from end of August towards beginning of September, Jesus was born in the tenth month after the ninth month of pregnancy. The end of May towards beginning of June (on the tenth month of delivery, which is from an end of March towards beginning of April beginning of the Jewish month Nisan in the Julian Calendar) is the month of birth of Jesus. So, arithmetically, we look for a birth of Jesus in late May or early June. That is a summer timeline which is very far from December! What if a month was added to the Jewish religious calendar year when Jesus was conceived? Still, December is very the unlikely month of birth of Jesus. Therefore, it is impossible that Jesus was born in December. John the Baptist was conceived sixth month before Jesus. Christmas is more likely to celebrate the birth of John the Baptist. If you are a believer and you absolutely love Christmas time, would you still keep Christmas as a celebration of the birth of Jesus or would you dismiss the arithmetical or mathematical timing of His birth that proves that Christmas has no biblical basis? Besides, there is no command from Jesus to celebrate His birthday even if the exact date of birth was known. Updated July 22, 2021.