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WHEN Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem more than two thousand years ago, it was a miracle that he and his mother survived. It was not a happy birth. Saint Luke tells us that it was an awful ...

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According to Luke, Mary and Joseph start out in Nazareth but need to go to Bethlehem to be counted in a Roman census. This, however, is where things start to fall apart for the Bethlehem narrative.