“Christmas，” as the name suggests，refers to the birthday of the saint “Christ”．The word “Christ” comes from Greek，meaning the “anointed”—a person God separated for special purpose.“Messiah” in Hebrew has the same meaning as “Christ”．The word “Messiah” comes from the prediction of an ancient prophet (先知)．Jews in the 1st century had been waiting for the arrival of “Messiah” God promised to grant them to bring them a new world.

　　The most authoritative record about the birth of Jesus is the Bible，especially in the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew.According to the record of Luke，Augustus，King of Rome at that time，ordered a census (人口普查)，so Mary and her husband Joseph left their home in Nazareth and went to Joseph’s hometown Bethlehem to register.As hotels there were fully occupied，Mary and Joseph had to spending a horse shed.Mary gave birth to Jesus that night.Bethlehem，the birthplace of Jesus，is just the city where Joseph’s ancestor David lived.This exactly proves the prediction in the Book of Isaiah.

　　The genealogy (家谱) of Jesus that Matthew described lasted until Jesus was born by a virgin.Then it recorded the arrival of three wise men from the Orient (probably China)．These men，also called by some people three doctors from the Orient，came soon after Jesus was born in Bethlehem.They previously went to Jerusalem to report to Jewish King Herod that they had seen a bright star which meant the birth of a new king.They arrived at Bethlehem finally after many inquiries，found Mary and Jesus and presented three precious gifts to Jesus.

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