1:20). Both narratives insist that Jesus’ coming is in continuity with and the ultimate realization of Israel’s covenant with God. They repeatedly draw upon Israel’s scriptures to assert this. Both ...

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke both assert that Mary conceived Jesus as a virgin. But while Luke tells the story without ...

the two different Gospel Infancy Narratives by examining a series of scenes in each of the narratives; the unique characteristics of each account; the limits of our historical knowledge about Jesus’s ...

It’s the glimmers of Jesus’ birth in the Old Testament — written hundreds of years before the Nativity narrative — they believe offer some of the most compelling evidence of Scripture’s ...

There is no story of the annunciation, the virgin birth or the appearance of the angels to the shepherds. The resurrection is not even mentioned. Jefferson discovered a Jesus who was a great ...