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When was Jesus born?
Before 4 BCE. After 6 CE.
Matthew 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king.

Luke 1:5
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

Herod the Great died in 4 BCE.
Wikipedia: Herod the Great
Luke 2:1
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

Quirinius became governer of Syria in 6 CE, ten years after king Herod's death.
Wikipedia: Quirinius

The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible: Robin Lane Fox (1992), 27-31

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