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26 BCE
Batized
Jesus must have been around 30 years old when he met a man called John the Baptist, who had started a religious movement preparing for the coming of the Messiah, or saviour. Jesus was baptized by John in the River Jordan. -
6 BCE
Annunciation
Some time before Jesus' birth the angel Gabriel visited Mary and told her that she was going to have a very special baby. -
4 BCE
the flee to egypt
Herod orders the "Massacre of the Innocents" — the killing of all male children in Bethlehem aged two years and under. Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus flee to Egypt -
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birth
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judea. According to the Gospels, Jesus was not the son of Joseph in the ordinary sense. He was miraculously conceived by Mary through God, without any human father. That is why Christians say that he was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born to the Virgin Mary.