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{{short description|Birth of Jesus}}{{Other uses|Nativity of Jesus (disambiguation)|Nativity (disambiguation)}}File:Adoration of the sheperds - Matthias Stomer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias StomerMatthias Stomer{{Jesus| in Christianity}}{{Christianity|state=collapsed}} The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Jesus or birth of Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judaea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention. Some scholars do not see the two canonical gospel nativity stories as historically factualMarcus Borg, ‘The Meaning of the Birth Stories’ in Marcus Borg, N T Wright, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (Harper One, 1999) page 179: “I (and most mainline scholars) do not see these stories as historically factual.” since they present clashing accounts and irreconcilable genealogies. The secular history of the time does not synchronize with the narratives of the birth and early childhood of Jesus in the two gospels.