Did You Know?

"Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" Matthew 13:55-56

Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. Luke 2:41-42, 46-47

Mary and Joseph had at least six other children besides Jesus.

The Bible doesn’t tell us anything about Jesus after Mary and Joseph got back to Nazareth until He was thirty years old, except for one incident when He was twelve.

Jesus was probably born in the autumn between 4 and 7 BC. Though a (human) mistake was made in making the calendar, the whole calendar for the world is based on the time elapsed since His birth. We are now living in AD, Anno Domini, meaning "the year of our Lord."

December 25 is the date of the pagan celebration Saturnalia, dedicated to the god Saturn. In AD 354 a pope named Liberus declared it a celebration of the birthday of Christ to divert the Romans from their pagan revelry.

The Bible doesn't mandate or even mention an annual celebration of the birth of Jesus.

Christmas wasn’t a federal holiday in the United States until 1870.