Joseph and Mary lived at Nazareth and the Messiah was reared there, are stated with such simplicity and emphatic power, and with such remarkable independence in the matter of details, that it is only by denying the testimony of both Matthew and Luke that the birth of Christ can be transferred from Bethlehem to Nazareth. Moreover, no conceivable reason can be offered for such a transfer except the determination of unbelievers to deny the deity of Christ and the declarations of the New Testament writers.