When was Jesus Born

WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?: M. M. NINAN
Jesus was certainly born sometime in this month
If we extrapolate the Gregorian Calendar the Hebrew month of
Tevet falls in the months of December/January whatever the year
of Jesus’ birth was.
January 1, 1 AD is 18 Tevet a Monday
Date of 25 Dec 8 BC was 25 Tevet 3574
Date of 25 Dec 7 BC was 6 Tevet 3575
Date of 25 Dec 6 BC was 16 Tevet 3576
Date of 25 Dec 5 BC was 27 Tevet 3577
Date of 25 Dec 4 BC was 9 Tevet 3578
Date of 25 Dec 3 BC was 20 Tevet 3579
Date of 25 Dec 2 BC was 1 Shevat 3580
Date of 25 Dec 1 BC was 11 Tevet 3581
These are arrived at by using the fourth century calendar system.
There is always a possibility of error due to possible insertion of a 13 th
month of variable days as Adar II called intercalary month to correct
the sidereal change to accommodate season. Along with that, we have
some uncertainty due to the uncertainty of the sixth month of
pregnancy of Elizabeth. This will introduce a difference of up to 15 +
days either way. This is exactly what we see here. The date of birth
we estimated was 14 Tevet
14 (+/-)15 is between 29 and 1 of Tevet or more which is equivalent to
between 15 th of December and January 15 th which allows for extreme
uncertainties in the pregnancy of Elizabeth and of Mary.
Christmas in fact was celebrated on January 7 for many Orthodox
churches, January 6 for the Armenian Apostolic Church and January 19
for the Armenians of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. It is certain that
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