When was Jesus Born

WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?: M. M. NINAN
David divided the levites into 24 divisions to serve at the temple. They
served in order and in cycles,
I Chronicles 24:1- tells us that the family of Abhijah was allotted the
eighth course
3. There were 24 courses in all.
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times a year all your men must appear
before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles
Talmud also confirms this.
" Three times in the year all the twenty-four orders of priests were alike
entitled to share the pieces of offerings of the festival, and in the
shewbread; and on the Feast of Pentecost the distributors say to each
priest: "Here is leavened bread for thee, and here is unleavened bread
for thee." The order of priests whose regular time of service occurs in
the festivals offer the continual daily offerings, vows, and voluntary
offerings, and all congregational offerings, and every sacrifice." (Tract
Succah (Booths), Bablyonian Talmud, Book 4: Tracts Pesachim,
Yomah and Hagiga, tr. by Michael L. Rodkinson, [1918], at sacredtexts.com,
Chapter V, Volume VII.)
Thus three times a year during the festival all the adult were to
assemble in Jerusalem before either temple, all these 24 priestly
families were to work together
56