When you picture the story of Jesus' birth, you might think of Mary and Joseph traveling to Bethlehem, a stable, shepherds, and some wise men.

But have you ever wondered which details come from which gospel and why the accounts differ?

Today I'm joined by renowned biblical scholar, Dr. Bart Ehrman.

Hello. Hey, Megan. How you doing?

I'm good, thank you. To explore questions like,

were Mary and Joseph from Nazareth or Bethlehem? Did they flee to Egypt after Jesus' birth or go straight home?

And can these accounts be reconciled into one story? Let's dive in.

Welcome to misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar,

uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament,

the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.

I'm your host, Megan Lewis.

Let's begin.

But hello, how are you today?

Yeah, yeah, I'm doing well.

So we're recording this a couple weeks ahead of time,

and I'm off tomorrow to my annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature,

which is 10,000 biblical scholars, literally, 10,000

biblical scholars who are experts in this and the other thing about the Bible, getting together

and reading papers and talking to each other and seeing old friends. And so, yeah, it's exciting.

How are you doing? I'm good. And one of these days, I'm going to join you at SBA because conferences are always fun. I've never been to SBA. I usually do American School of Overseas research. But society biblical, it just sounds like a fun time.

It is. Well, it can be. It can be also frustrating. But they have this big book display. They take an entire ballroom. And every time I go through there, I get to press, both because I look at all these books that, like, you know, I should have read and all these other books that, like, should never have been written. Between the two of them. But anyway, you know, it's a good time. It's really great to see old colleagues, old friends, and former students is basically what I do.

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