Answering Questions Through The Holy Qur'an: Was Jesus born on 25th December / Christmas Day? Was Jesus born in Bethlehem or Nazareth?

Was Jesus born on 25th December / Christmas Day? Was Jesus born in Bethlehem or Nazareth?

19:22 So she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to a remote place. 19:23 Then the pains of childbirth drove her to (the) trunk (of) the date-palm. She said, "O, I wish I (had) died before this and I was (in) oblivion, forgotten." 19:24 So cried to her from beneath her, "That do not grieve, verily, your Lord (has) placed beneath you a stream. 19:25 And shake towards you (the) trunk (of) the date-palm, it will drop upon you fresh ripe dates.

(According to the Qur’an, when Jesus was born, there were fresh ripe dates, but the harvest season of dates is not in Winter, so according to this, Jesus was not born on 25th December)(Quoting a Christian website: “there is no evidence for this date. The early Christian church did not celebrate Jesus’ birth. It wasn’t until A.D. 440 that the church officially proclaimed December 25 as the birth of Christ. This was not based on any religious evidence but on a pagan feast. Saturnalia was a tradition inherited by the Roman pagans from an earlier Babylonian priesthood. December 25 was used as a celebration of the birthday of the sun god. It was observed near the winter solstice. The apostles in the Bible predicted that some Christians would adopt pagan beliefs to enable them to make their religion more palatable to the pagans around them. Therefore, some scholars think the church chose the date of this pagan celebration to interest them in Christianity. The Bible itself tells us that December 25 is an unlikely date for his birth. Palestine is very cold in December. The shepherds were in the fields (Luke 2:8-12). Shepherds were not in the fields in the winter time. They are in the fields early in March until early October. This would place Jesus’ birth in the spring or early fall, ...”)(Source: article “Was Jesus born on December 25?” by “allaboutjesuschrist(dot)org”)(Allah knows best)

4:172 Never would the Messiah disdain to be a slave of Allah nor the Angels near. And whoever disdains His worship and is arrogant, then He will gather them towards Him all together.

(In regard to where he was born, there are two candidate cities, but also you have to consider that there are two different “Jesus” in the Bible; the Aramaic name “Barabbas” literally means “son of the father”; ancient manuscripts of Matthew 27:16-17 have the name “Jesus Barabbas”, not just “Barabbas” (See the translations that are more faithful to those ancient manuscripts: “New International Version” or “Contemporary English Version”, or “Good News Translation”, or “Net Bible”). According to the Bible, Pilate, the governor of Judea, asked the crowd which prisoner was to be released “Jesus son of the father (aka “Jesus Barabbas”), or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” (Matthew 27:17). So, the conclusion is that the New Testament explicitly says that there were two characters bearing the same name (Jesus). It seems that the Christians mixed stories of the two characters; Jesus Barabbas blasphemed by bearing such a name, “the son of father (referring to God)”, because God does not beget; on the other hand, Jesus the Messiah never said that he was the son of God, because the words “Barabbas / son of the father” and “Messiah / son of Mary” are used to distinguish one Jesus from the other)(Someone who claims to be the “king of the Jews”, he is going to have to lead the rebellion against Rome. Jesus Barabbas is the one who rebelled against Rome. The punishment for rebellion is crucifixion; so Jesus Barabbas was crucified, not Jesus the Messiah. A proof that Jesus Barabbas was the “king of the Jews”, while “Jesus the Messiah” had not such a title, is that Matthew 2:1-2 say that Jesus, “the king of the Jews”, was born in Bethlehem in Judea, while the earliest Gospel says that Jesus came from Nazareth, so the two accounts are contradictory, but, in fact, they are two different persons bearing the same name (Jesus); so, one Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and another Jesus was born in Nazareth. The Qur’an confirms that Jesus the Messiah is from Nazareth, because the Arabic word “nasara” in the Qur’an, usually translated to English as “Christian(s)” in the Qur’an, is literally translated as “Nazarene” (e.g. follower/s of the Nazarene). In addition, Matthew 2:2 says, “and asked, where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?”. So, Matthew 2:1-2 explicitly say that the one who was born in Bethlehem is the king of the Jews, rather than the one who was born in Nazareth)(According to Matthew 27:11, the governor asked the one who was to be crucified: “are you the king of the Jews? You have said so, Jesus replied”. So, according to the context (Matthew 27:11-13), despite Jews wanted to crucify the Messiah, they took “the King of the Jews” instead, (the one from Bethlehem); Matthew 27:37 confirms that: “above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is Jesus, the king of the Jews”. On the other hand, “Acts 3:6, 4:10, 10:38” confirm that “Jesus of Nazareth” is the Messiah (aka anointed one), rather than the one from Bethlehem)(The “Jesus” who uses the term “my father”, “father” and so, in Matthew, he is Jesus Barabbas (aka “Jesus son of the father), rather than Jesus the Messiah)(Allah knows best)

19:26 So eat and drink and cool (your) eyes. And if you see any human being, then say, "Indeed, I have vowed to the Most Gracious a fast, so I will not speak today (to any) human being."

(The Qur’an confirms that Mary was virgin, and “alone”, when Jesus the Messiah (of Nazareth) was born. On the other hand, according to the Bible, the “parents” of Jesus “of Bethlehem” were present, when he was born; and other people were present, so it is a story well known because people witnessed it. But the (detailed) story of Mary, mother of Jesus the Messiah, could have not been known, unless it is revealed by God, because Mary was alone when Jesus was born, and might have not wanted it to be known, because she had no husband. This interpretation might be supported by Verse 19:23, "O, I wish I (had) died before this and I was (in) oblivion, forgotten.")(So, the Christian account of the birth of Jesus is very different to that in Qur’an because it is the story of Barabbas, who is other than the Messiah)(Allah knows best)