Jesus of Nazareth - For so greatly did God love the world that
He gave His only born Son, that everyone who believes in Him
should not be subject to death but have eternal Life. Jesus
Christ, the founder of Christianity, was born in Bethlehem,
Judea, according to the generally accepted chronology in the
year of Rome 750, that is, 4 BC. This apparent discrepancy in
date is due to an error that was made when the Christian
calendar originated with Dionysius in 556 AD. He fixed upon the
year of Rome 754 as that in which Christ was born. Later
information proved beyond a doubt that this date should have
been 750, which gives the birth of Christ four years before the
beginning of the Christian era according to the calendar of
Dionysius. The mother of Jesus was Mary, who was probably a
descendant of David. Her husband, Joseph, was also a descendant
of the same family. The birth of the holy child occurred in a
manger at a public inn in Bethlehem, where Joseph had gone to be
registered in his place of origin in accord