When was Jesus Born?

[stovebolts]

This is from an old, old thread but I thought it was worth bringing up
http://christianforums.net/Fellowsh...rejected-from-an-inn.12207/page-2#post-187776

Now for the chronology of the first two chapters of Luke. First, lets look at 1 Chronicles 24, particularly verse 24:10

10-The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah

David seperated the priesthood into 24 weekly periods. Each division was to tend to the Temple for one week. During Passover and Schavuot, all 24 were required to tend to Temple duties.

In Luke we read:

Luke 1:5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia (Abijah): and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

That would require Zacharias to be at the Temple the third week of Nisan, which is Passover and during the eighth period, because he was from the line of Abijah. That would put him there the first week of Sivan. BTW, they started counting weeks and months starting with the first week of Nisan.

The second week of Sivan was Schavuot (Pentecost), so he was required to stay an additional week. That means he couldn't go home to his wife until after Schavuot (the 10th. week). One more thing to consider... Niddah, the period of seperation. This could be a period of 12-14 days. Like I said, we need to consider the possibility, since we don't know for sure.

Let's say that puts us at the fourth week of Sivan, where conception of John the Baptist occurred. We can now count nine months from there and find us at the last week of Adar or the first week of Nisan. Very soon afterwards would be... Pasover!

Zacharias says this in Luke:

Luke 1:76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

He is speaking of not just John, but of Elijah. Some believe John was Elijah incarnate. Jesus even alludes to this. Zacharias is echoing the words of Malachi. The Jews even save a place for Elijah at the Passover Seder.

We know from Luke that Mary conceived at the time Elisabeth was six months with child and went to visit Elisabeth. Luke 1:26-36 That pus us at about the end of Kislev or the beginning of Tevet. We can now count nine months from here and arrive at late Elul or early Tishri, which is our Sept./Oct., which is when The Feast of Tabernacles would be some 2,000 years ago.

Sorry this was so long. : But if that didn't make sense, see this:
http://www.luziusschneider.com/Papers/J ... .htm#_ftn1

 

[poetofparables]

Interesting, ill have to read that again.