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Jesus's First Evangelist?

Jesus's First Evangelist?

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The Prophetess Anna Greets the Christ Child
Anna greets the Christ Child. Image by Lester Yocum. Used with permission.

Do your Nativity scenes and plays include the Jerusalem temple? Probably not. Instead, they tell an incomplete, inaccurate version of Jesus’s birth: setting it in a stable, the couple alone with livestock, wise men arriving soon after the shepherds or even at the same time.

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