We normally compress a lot of things into what is the traditional Christmas nativity story, yet the timeline of the story itself plays out over several years. Luke begins nine months to a year before the birth of Christ with the angel visiting Zechariah to announce that he would have a son. Then, about nine months before the birth of Jesus (which is three months before John the Baptist is born) the angel Gabriel visits Mary. Sometime later Joseph is visited by an angel and then they receive the news that they need to travel to Bethlehem for the census. Finally, they arrive in Bethlehem just in time to give birth to Jesus. Shortly after that …
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