Christmas - The Rest of the Story Quotes

“In Matthew 13:55 and 56, we read that after Mary gave birth to Jesus (He was Mary’s firstborn), she gave birth to four more boys and to at least two girls. That means Jesus was the eldest of at least six siblings. Matthew 13:55 says about Jesus, “Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses [Joseph], and Simon, and Jude?”
― Rick Renner, Christmas - The Rest of the Story

“After the cave was authenticated as the place of Christ’s birth, Helena’s son, Emperor Constantine, issued a decree for the first church building to be constructed on that site in the year 326 AD.9 That earliest church in Bethlehem was built directly on the land above the cave where Christ was born, and in 339 AD, the Church of the Nativity of Christ was dedicated.10”
― Rick Renner, Christmas - The Rest of the Story