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The Gospel of Luke, which has been described by Ernest Renan as “the most beautiful book in the world” is the first part of a 2-volume work devoted to the life of Jesus and the opening years of the Christian church. In Luke’s Gospel, we are introduced to “everything Jesus began to do and teach” prior to his ascension. In the second volume, the book of Acts, Luke picks up the story of the years...

the nativity account is to the first one, while Acts 5:37 speaks of the second census. This allows Luke’s dating of Jesus’ birth to align with the historical facts in Matthew, who places the birth of Jesus during the reign of Herod the Great, who died in 4 BC. The census was used by Rome for both military and revenue purposes and was therefore mandatory: “All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census” (2:3). Though the Jews were exempt from military service, they were still
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