Dict: easton - Nativity of Christ

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Nativity of Christ @ The birth of our Lord took place at the time and place predicted by the prophets kjv@Genesis:49:10; kjv@Isaiah:7:14; kjv@Jeremiah:31:15; kjv@Micah:5:2; kjv@Haggai:2:6-9; kjv@Daniel:9:24-25). Joseph and Mary were providentially led to go up to Bethlehem at this period, and there Christ was born kjv@Matthew:2:1 kjv@Matthew:2:6 kjv@Luke:2:1 kjv@Luke:2:7). The exact year or month or day of his birth cannot, however, now be exactly ascertained. We know, however, that it took place in the "fulness of the time" kjv@Galatians:4:4), i.e., at the fittest time in the world's history. Chronologists are now generally agreed that the year 4 before the Christian era was the year of Christ's nativity, and consequently that he was about four years old in the year 1 A.D.