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Examine the accounts of the birth of Jesus as found in the St.Matthew and St.Luke. What are the similarities and differences.
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AO1: Examine the accounts of the birth of Jesus as found in the St.Matthew and St.Luke. What are the similarities and differences. The story of the birth of Jesus is recoreded in two books of the new testament, the Gospels according to St.Matthew and St.Luke. We find the accounts of Jesus' birth in them. Luke's account, the most popularly known, includes the angel's visit to Mary, the world-wide census, the birth in the manger in Bethlehem, the angel's visit to the shepherds, and the shepherd's visitation to the stable Matthew's account is different. It contains Joseph's visit by an angel in a dream, the birth in Bethlehem ( with no details ), the visit by the magi ( the wisemen ), the presentation of their gifts, the subterfuge of King Herod, and the escape to Egypt by the holy family These Christian writers have recorded the good news about Jesus'...
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