An interview with researcher Liberato De Caro reveals that the Nativity really did happen during winter in Bethlehem just over 2,020 years ago. Mary’s visit to Elizabeth — and Mary’s reaction to Elizabeth expecting John the Baptist, and the death of Herod the Great — all point to the date of Jesus’ birth in December, 1 BC.
 

 

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