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The Roman Church celebrates the annunciation of March 25 (the Roman calendar equivalent to the Jewish fourteenth Nisan); hence Jesus' birthday occurred nine months later on December 25. This computation matches well with other indications in Luke's gospel. Christians conjectured that the priest Zechariah was serving in the temple on the Day of Atonement, roughly at the autumnal equinox, when the angel announced to him the miraculous conception of John the Baptist. At her annunciation, Mary received news that Elizabeth was in her sixth month. Sixth months after the autumnal equinox means that Mary conceived Jesus at the vernal equinox (March 25). If John the Baptist was conceived at the autumnal equinox, he was born at the summer solstice nine months later. Thus even to this day the liturgical calendar commemorates John's birth on June 24. Finally, John 3:30, where John the Baptist says of Jesus: "He must increase, but I must decrease," corroborates this tallying of dates. For indeed, after the birth of Jesus at the winter solstice the days increase, while after the birth of John at the summer solstice the days decrease.
|magazine=与模板{{cite web}}不匹配（建议改用{{cite magazine}}或|website=） (帮助)|editor-first1=和|editor-first=只需其一 (帮助)|chapterurl=缺少标题 (帮助). Vardaman, Jerry (编). Josephus Reexamined: Unraveling the Twenty-Second Year of Tiberius. Mercer University Press. 1998: 85–96 [2023-12-24]. ISBN 978-0-86554-582-3. （原始内容存档于2023-10-02）.Although HRT is nowadays used as the default explanation for the choice of 25 December as Christ's birthday, few advocates of this theory seem to be aware of how paltry the available evidence actually is.
Around 274 ADᵃ, Emperor Aurelian set December 25—the winter solstice at the time—for the celebration of Sol Invictus who was the ‘Unconquered Sun’ god. ‘A marginal note on a manuscript of the writings of the Syriac biblical commentator Dionysius bar-Salibi states that in ancient times the Christmas holiday was actually shifted from January 6 to December 25 so that it fell on the same date as the pagan Sol Invictus holiday,’ reads an excerpt from Biblical Archaeology. / Could early Christians have chosen December 25 to coincide with this holiday? ‘The first celebration of Christmas observed by the Roman church in the West is presumed to date to [336 AD],’ per the Encyclopedia Romanaᵃ, long after Aurelian established Sol Invictus' festival.
Around 274 ADᵃ, Emperor Aurelian set December 25—the winter solstice at the time—for the celebration of Sol Invictus who was the ‘Unconquered Sun’ god. ‘A marginal note on a manuscript of the writings of the Syriac biblical commentator Dionysius bar-Salibi states that in ancient times the Christmas holiday was actually shifted from January 6 to December 25 so that it fell on the same date as the pagan Sol Invictus holiday,’ reads an excerpt from Biblical Archaeology. / Could early Christians have chosen December 25 to coincide with this holiday? ‘The first celebration of Christmas observed by the Roman church in the West is presumed to date to [336 AD],’ per the Encyclopedia Romanaᵃ, long after Aurelian established Sol Invictus' festival.
In the Julian calendar, December 25 marked the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, after which the days begin to lengthen….
|magazine=与模板{{cite web}}不匹配（建议改用{{cite magazine}}或|website=） (帮助)|chapterurl=缺少标题 (帮助). Vardaman, Jerry (编). Josephus Reexamined: Unraveling the Twenty-Second Year of Tiberius. Mercer University Press. 1998: 85–96 [2023-12-24]. ISBN 978-0-86554-582-3. （原始内容存档于2023-10-02）.Around 274 ADᵃ, Emperor Aurelian set December 25—the winter solstice at the time—for the celebration of Sol Invictus who was the ‘Unconquered Sun’ god. ‘A marginal note on a manuscript of the writings of the Syriac biblical commentator Dionysius bar-Salibi states that in ancient times the Christmas holiday was actually shifted from January 6 to December 25 so that it fell on the same date as the pagan Sol Invictus holiday,’ reads an excerpt from Biblical Archaeology. / Could early Christians have chosen December 25 to coincide with this holiday? ‘The first celebration of Christmas observed by the Roman church in the West is presumed to date to [336 AD],’ per the Encyclopedia Romanaᵃ, long after Aurelian established Sol Invictus' festival.