The magi could have come later than the shepherds, but of course the stories give us nothing by which to prove they did. Either the magi or the shepherds coud have been first.
The shepherds. The visit from the wise men was up to two years later.
According to Luke's gospel, angels announced Christ's arrival to shepherds in the field on the night of His birth, and they immediately went and saw a "babe" (Greek brephos - "a new-born child") in the manger (Luke 2:8-15). Luke doesn't tell of the visit of the wise men.
Conversely, Matthew's account doesn't tell of the shepherds' visit; indeed, it says nothing of events on the night of Jesus' birth, and some time elapses between the close of Matthew 1 (the naming of Jesus, which would officially have taken place at His circumcision, when He was eight days old - Luke 2:26) and the beginning of Matthew 2.
When the wise men arrived, Matthew 2:11 says that Jesus was a "young child" (Greek paidion - "a young child, a little boy, a little girl; of a more advanced child"), and that they found Him in a "house" with Mary His mother (not in the manger). By this time, Jesus would have been up to two years old, as evidenced by Herod's subsequent "slaughter of the innocents:" all male children in the region aged two and under (Matthew 2:16).
The stories of the birth of Jesus ware found in Matthew's Gospel and Luke's Gospel. We now know that Matthew's Gospel was written in the 80s of the first century and that Luke's Gospel was written around the end of the century. Both dates are so long after the birth of Jesus that the authors would never have met Joseph, Mary, Zacharias, Elizabeth, or any one who could have been a confidant of Mary or Joseph. In spite of this, both authors wrote detailed accounts of exactly what happened, even telling us what the parents thought and what they said.
Carefully reading the two nativity accounts, we find that they are, in fact, irreconcilably different.
In Matthew, the home town of Joseph and Mary was Bethlehem. They fled to Egypt with Jesus, for fear of King Herod, who ordered the slaughter of all the boys under two years old. After the death of Herod, they began to return home to Bethlehem but, being warned in a dream, turned aside and travelled to Nazareth in Galilee.
In Luke, the home town of Joseph and Mary was Nazareth. Augustus Caesar reportedly ordered a census of the whole empire so that everyone could be taxed. This required Joseph and Mary to travel to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born in a stable. Eight days after the birth of Jesus, he was circumcised. When the days of the purification of Mary were accomplished, Jesus was taken to the Jerusalem Temple, where Jesus seems to have attracted a great deal of attention, and the family then returned peacefully to Nazareth.
A well-known mystery in Luke's Gospel is the story of the census that led to Joseph and Mary travelling from Nazareth to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. Scholars say that there was only one census that involved Quirinius, and that occurred in 6 CE, yet the Gospel says that Jesus was born during the reign of King Herod, who died in 4 BCE. Since the author of Luke is known to have drawn material from the works of the Jewish historian, Josephus, it is likely that he learnt of the census of Quirinius from the same source, but did not realise that it was just too late to have been during the reign of Herod.
The pattern we see here, is that neither author really knew anything about the birth of Jesus. No one told them of when or where Jesus was born, but they felt that a birth story was needed, so they wrote one.
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There is no historical reference to the wise men, nor are they mentioned by Luke's Gospel, so we must rely solely on Matthew's Gospel for information about the wise men, but this Gospel does not say how they found out about the birth of Jesus, merely that they followed a star that they hoped would lead them to him.
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the world's Anglicans, has described the story of the three wise men as nothing but a "legend" and says there is little evidence that they existed. John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus) calls Matthew's story of the magi, or wise men, Christian midrash and says that among people he knows in New Testament circles, the universal assumption is that the magi (wise men) were not actual people. If there were no wise men, or magi, we can not say how they found out about the birth of Jesus.
New Testament scholars say that Matthew was actually written in the eighties of the first century, which is almost a century after the birth of Jesus. Luke was written around the end of the first century and probably a little more than a century after Jesus was born, as King Herod is known to have died in April 4 BCE. In spite of traditional attributions, we do not really know who wrote these gospels, but neither author could have known Jesus, Mary or Joseph, all of whom died so long before the two gospels were written. The author of Matthew was no more likely than the author of Luke to have known the close personal details of the family life of Joseph and Mary, nor to have known the minutiae of the birth of Jesus. Both were just writing what they felt could have happened, in an accepted style of ancient times.
According to The Bible, the shepherds in the fields near Bethlehem were the first to hear about Jesus' birth. An angel appeared to them to announce the good news.
The three wise men, also known as the Magi, were said to have visited baby Jesus first after following a star to Bethlehem. They brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to honor and celebrate his birth.
After Jesus' birth in Bethlehem, the shepherds were the first to visit him, according to the New Testament. The angels announced the birth to the shepherds, who then went to see Jesus in the manger.
The first bed for Jesus is traditionally believed to have been a manger in a stable, as mentioned in the Christian nativity story. It represents humility and the modest circumstances of Jesus' birth. This imagery has become a powerful symbol of simplicity, faith, and the idea that great things can arise from humble beginnings.
The Christian religion's Holy Book, the Bible, includes the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem in the New Testament, particularly in the books of Matthew and Luke.
According to Christian tradition, Jesus was born first. St. Brigid was an Irish saint believed to have been born in the 5th century AD, long after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.
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Mary, then Joseph, then Mary's cousin, Elizabeth.
The first people to hear about Christ's birth were people all the way back to Isaiah's time when he prophesied the coming of the Messiah. If you mean when he was actually born it was Mary or Elisabeth, and the first one to see Christ were Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, and the Magi. The shepherds were the first people to hear about it and saw them first. The Magi came to vsit them many months after.
you hear at first, first testament before jesus, then a psalm then a second readig from the second testemant or a letter, during jesus, and then a gospel which is when jesus would give parables
they first mention his name in the book of Matthew
mary and josepph
Jesus Christ birth in Bethlehem.
No, Mary was chosen by an angel of God to give birth to baby Jesus, but she was not his first decibel.
Joseph, Mary's husband
The birth of jesus christ
== == To remember the birth of Jesus Christ.
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