Micah 5:2 in the Old Testament foretells Christ's birth, and the fact that Bethlehem would play a significant and eternal role in the Christian story. Two North Carolina faith leaders weigh in.

In the Old Testament, the prophet Micah foretold, “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for Me one who will be ruler over Israel ...

2) The New Testament writers knew that Jesus was not born in Bethlehem because they had no evidence to substantiate the fact, but they “wrote it in” anyway because of the need for Jesus as ...

Scholars are divided over whether the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are accurate. The story, immortalized in pageants and song, is a familiar one. A messiah, sent to redeem humanity. Son of the ...

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke both reference Bethlehem as the birthplace of Jesus, fulfilling a prophecy from the Old ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet ...

Eco Catholic: For 2,000 years, the Star of Bethlehem story has prompted countless ... by using an imaginative telling of Jesus’ birth to connect it with Old Testament prophecies predicting his ...

I love the story of Ruth in the Old Testament book that bears her name. Naomi and her husband and two sons were from Bethlehem. Because of a famine, they relocated to Moab, a neighboring country ...

According to the Gospel of Matthew, the first Gospel in the canon of the New Testament, Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem when Jesus was born.