When was Jesus Born

WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?: M. M. NINAN
They returned after the death of Herod from Egypt which
according to the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was when Jesus was
five years old. So Herod must have died during the age period of
2 years to 5 years of Jesus.
Assuming the death of Herod as 4 BC, the birth of Christ could
be placed between 9 BC and 5 BC. It is usually taken as 6 BC.
Assuming the death of Herod as 1 BC we arrive at the birth of
Jesus between 5 BC and 2 BC . It is generally taken as 2 BC.
Dionysius Exiguus (c.470 – c.544) and
In 525 A.D. a Scythian monk in Rome, Dionysius Exiguus was
preparing tables for determining the date of Easter on the Roman
Calendar. He decided to abandon the Roman calendar based on
the first year of the reign of Emperor Diocletian (29 Aug., 284).
His idea was to start a calendar “Anno Domini”, the “Year of Our
Lord” based on his calculated year of the birth of Jesus Christ.
Dionysius based his calculation on two verses:
Luke 3:1 - Jesus was baptized in the 15th year of the reign of
Tiberius
Luke 3:23 says Jesus was about 30 years old at the start of his
ministry, His baptism.
Using this and other data available to him, he calculated the
probable year of Jesus birth as occurring in the 753rd since the
founding of the Roman empire, which he called AD 1.
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