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Contradicting accounts

According to critics, Matthew 2:1-23 tells us that Mary and Joseph lived in a house in Bethlehem where Mary gave birth to Jesus and the couple received the magi.

Later, the family fled to Egypt and after Herod’s death returned to Judea and settled in Nazareth. But according to Luke 2:1-7, Joseph and Mary already lived in Nazareth.

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They went to Bethlehem to enroll in a census, and Jesus was born there in a manger. The family later returned to Nazareth without making any trip to Egypt.

Are these accounts at odds with one another?

They would be if each one were an exhaustive description of everything the Holy Family did.

But because some details are omitted from either Matthew or Luke’s account does not mean the accounts aren’t accurate in what they do relate.

This objection also assumes that the events in Matthew’s Gospel take place immediately after Jesus was born.

But Matthew 2:1 says, “[W]hen Jesus was born in Bethlehem