What was the birth year of Jesus Christ?

Not in Year Zero. There is a good reason why Jesus wasn't born in Year Zero: There wasn't one. The sequence of years before Christ ends at 1 B.C. and the A.D. series picks up the very next year with A.D. 1. read more

If Jesus was “about thirty years of age” by A.D. 27, a birth sometime between 6 and 4 B.C. would fit the chronology. More specifically, Jesus would have been approximately 32 years old at the time He began His ministry (still “about thirty years of age”). read more

Christmas of the year 2 A.D. was the 1st anniversary of Christ's birth, according to Dionysius' calculations; similarly, the second anniversary of that birth fell in the year 3 A.D. Taking this forward a few centuries, we find that the 2000th anniversary of Christ's birth should fall on December 25, 2001. read more

In conclusion, most scholars accept a birth year for Jesus between 6 and 4 BC. Subtracting Jesus' age of "about 30 years" when preaching. Another approach to estimating Jesus' year of birth is based on the statement in Luke 3:23 that he was "about 30 years of age" when starting his ministry. read more