Bethlehem, Nativity of Christ: A New Opinion from the XXI Century

Abstract

A study of the agreement of the genealogies of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke was carried out, and the Genealogical Scheme of the family of relatives in the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles at the level of the I century BC and I century AD was developed, clearly bringing clarity to the understanding of the kinship relationships of persons in the Gospel history. It turned out that both genealogies according to Matthew and Luke harmoniously complement each other. The systematization of historical information, converted into genealogical schemes, makes it possible to present the Gospel events more concretely and realistically, and opens up new opportunities in the study and understanding of the Holy Scriptures. When studying the historical material, the methodology of constructing schemes, borrowed from engineering system designer, was used. In the proposed article, an attempt is made with the help of the Genealogical Scheme to view the Gospel story from the Nativity of Christ in Bethlehem to the Ascension on the example of the participation of the Apostle and Evangelist Matthew, a close relative of the Lord in the flesh.