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A Christmas Question?

Could there be a more bizarre yet dramatic mystery than the nativity-- the story of Jesus birth. An engaged couple face crisis upon crisis. The woman discovers she  pregnant by someone other than her betrothed. Angels appearing to both man and woman declaring God to be the father of the child. A national census creates the need for the couple to return to the man's home town fulfilling an ancient prophecy about the anticipated Messiah's birth. With no vacancies in the inns in the small town the child is born in a cattle stall and met there by shepherds who themselves have had an epiphany. Eight days later the couple dedicated the child in the Jewish synagogue. A prophet and prophetess declare the child to be the expected Messiah. Shortly after the couple returns home to Nazareth emissaries from foreign nations appear before the governor. They are following a star to anoint a new King. The sovereign attempts to ensnare them in his conspiracy to kill the child whom he considers a