Weird History

Jesus Christ Was NOT Born On Christmas (2017x4)

: 15, 2017

Did you know that Jesus Christ was NOT actually born on Christmas? Jesus Christ -- or Yeshua to Ancient Jews -- was born on some day. But if you thought it was Christmas … well, that’s weird, here’s something you should know. Popular culture says that Prominent Jewish preacher Jesus Christ was born on December 25th, which is almost certainly not true according to many historians. The first recorded celebration of Jesus’ birth a.k.a. Christmas was on December 25 in 336 A.D. over 300 years after Jesus’ death. Truth be told, very little is known about the timeline of Jesus’ birth. It’s estimated only a tiny percentage of the population who might have been familiar with Jesus knew how to read or write, thus making something like his birth difficult to track. Even the gospels (which means good news in greek) written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John offered very few references to the date of Jesus birth. So given all of this, where did December 25th come from? The Roman Emperor Aurelian, w