Jesus was born here: an informative tour of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Merry Christmas
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2025
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The Church of the Nativity is the most important landmark in Bethlehem and marks the site where the Nativity took place. It was in Bethlehem just over 2,000 years ago that Mary gave birth to baby Jesus. Today Bethlehem is a thriving city in the Palestinian Authority West Bank approximately 10 km south of Jerusalem and the Nativity Church is the city’s top attraction. In 2012 the Bethlehem Church of the Nativity was added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites.
History of the Church of the Nativity
The Bible tells us that Mary and Joseph left their home in Nazareth and traveled to Bethlehem. The Romans had decided to carry out a census and people were required to travel to their ancestral family home to register. As Joseph was from the House of David and Bethlehem was David’s city the couple had no choice but to make the long journey despite Mary being pregnant.
During Jesus’ lifetime, it was common for homes to be built close to a cave they could use to house their animals. When Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem and found no room available in the inn they were offered to spend the night in the adjacent cave with the animals. With no other options, and Mary about to give birth, they settled down in the manger. Less than a century after Jesus’ death Christians had identified the site of his birth as a cave in Bethlehem.
In the 4th century, the first Christian Roman Emperor Constantine and his mother Helena commissioned the construction of a church to be built around the sacred cave of the nativity. The church was dedicated in 339 AD. In the 6th century, the church suffered fire damage and Emperor Justinian replaced the church with a larger, more ornate one. In 614 the Persians invaded the Holy Land and destroyed most of the churches. Luckily the Nativity Church was spared thanks to a mural in the church depicting the Three Wise Men (Three Magi) who were dressed in Persian apparel of Zoroastrian priests.
As you approach the church entrance you will pass by Manger Square and enter through the Door of Humility. This small and low doorway was designed so that looters could not get their carts into the church. It also means that all those that enter need to bow down as they cross the threshold. The stunning interior has walls covered in gold-hued mosaic. Space is divided into five aisles by 44 painted columns.
A section of the mosaic floor from the original 4th-century church can still be seen through an opening in the flagstones. Sanctuary lamps add a wonderful atmosphere to the church and an open ceiling shows the exposed wooden rafters. In the south aisle stands an octagonal baptismal font from the Justinian 6th-century church. The font would have once stood near the high altar.
The Roman Catholic Chapel of the Manger has retained parts of the 12th-century capitals and mosaics. The main point of interest within the church is the Grotto of the Nativity. The cave is reached by descending a small flight of steps where the site of Jesus' birth is enshrined. The exact point where he was born is marked by a beautiful silver star on the marble floor. Hanging above this holy site are 15 sanctuary lamps.
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera zahishaked@gmail.com +972-54-6905522 tel סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered licensed tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.
Praise be to Jesus our Savior and King of Kings. Wow I can feel The Presence Of Jesus. ❤
Christ is with in our midst! Peace be to you all.
Amen ❤🙏❤
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Amen❤❤
THANK YOU BROTHER ❤❤❤
❤ PRAISE THE LORD JESUS ❤
GOD IS GREAT..!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS..!! & I hope you have a Blessed Christmas From My Family To Yours..!!! 🙏🕯
God made provisions for a new covenant promise land. Jeremiah 31:36 and Matthew 21:43-44
The grotto of the Nativity is very beautiful. Zahi thank you for this inspiring video. May God give you peace and blessings to you and Israel. Prayers to you always. Shalom to you. Merry Christmas! 🙏🙏🎄🎄❤️❤️
Bethlehem is a beautiful city ❤enshrined in ancient history🌹
🌟 Your journey is a testament to the redemptive power of faith. It's incredible how God can take our brokenness and transform it into a beautiful story of healing and restoration. 🙌
Thank you for another inspiring video much appreciated. SHALOM ZAHI
Merry Christmas. Safe journey to all💌
Wonderful city 🎊🎄❄️
Watching From Charlotte Nc, USA....Thank You For Sharing... This Place Is Beautiful 🙏 🕯 ✝️ 🇬🇷
Merry Christmas for Zahi The Great and his family! Greetings from Poland 👍🙏🌠
I get excited when your video comes up on my feed. I am alone this Christmas. Thank you for taking me along. I needed this. So glad that you do what you do. 🕯️🙏🕯️
Merry Christmas!🎄❤ my fellow solo sojourner, It's written "The lord has promised to place us in families." You my dear sister are never alone. Praying Gods Blessings for you and all of us waiting on our Soverign Lord. Knowing that God Is Love.🕊†🕊🕊🎄❤ 🙋🏼♀ ps (pls. forgive my spelling ty)
You are not alone, you are with me and my family
Feeling the love! Thank you!
Merry Christmas. God loves you so much
Merry Christmas!! Thank you!
From Florida enjoy your videos.
God made provisions for a new covenant promise land. Jeremiah 31:36 and Matthew 21:43-44
Wow wow wow, absolutely stunning!! I would love to be there in person to witness this ,thank you so much for the beautiful video
Merry Christmas! ❤✝️🎄🇺🇸
Mery christmas 🌲🩸zahi God bless you 🙏
ALL GLORY to GOD the FATHER ❤️🔥 HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON TO SAVE US 🙏 ❤️🔥 THANK YOU JESUS for dying for our sins and being our SAVIOR ❤️🔥 🙏 THANK YOU HOLY SPIRIT for keeping us on the narrow path and comforting us until the very end of the age ❤️🔥 🙏 AMEN ❤️🔥🙏🕊❣️
Thank You so much from Ca. USA. 12/23/23. Everyone is so kind. Praying The Lords Blessings over you and All ISRAEL.PEACE!🕊🕊†✡🕊🕊❤ Merry Christmas, Family of God. I love You.
Beautiful place ❤🙏⚘️
Merry Christmas Zahid! Pray for my health please!!
Feeling so blessed and grateful to have the chance to visit (dec 2018)& kissed the place where our Lord Jesus Christ was born. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS ❤❤🌷🌷🙏🙏
Thankyou as always Zahid happy Christ mass.so pleased to see tourism at times of war.real Christians .fearless.ifear only the lord.and love my saviour.god bless you for yr tour.hope you have alovely day tomorrowxxxx
Thanks for a beautiful experience at Christmas.
Pray for me that God will heal my body as always I enjoy your touring
God made provisions for a new covenant promise land. Jeremiah 31:36 and Matthew 21:43-44 They don't have the anointing.
Shalom Alechim. Shabbat Shalom and Hag Semach ❤
Thank you Mr Zahi . Brings back memories of queuing up ,then stooping to enter the Church of the Nativity and visiting the grotto . What a feeling it was both times we visited.
Wow, so beautiful
Thank You GOD, MARY & JESUS For Everything... Thank You For Protecting Us All...
Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.
I LOVE THE LORD JESUS AND OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. PRAISE THE LORD JESUS. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Absolutely beautiful
Such an amazing and beautiful place .Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience with us!
Happy Holidays🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Merry Merry Christmas Zahi ❤
Bethlehem Church of The Nativity of Jesus is so Beautiful. Thank you for bringing us there to Adore Our Lord Jesus Christ ♥️🙏🏽🛐🕯👼🍼 🎂Happy Birthday Dear Jesus ❤️
Merry Christmas my family 🎄
"Oh Night~ Divine~ where 🌟Christ🌟was Born🌟🌹🌟One of the Most Important Church's in the world🌟🌹🌟Thank You Zahi💙💫💙God Bless You🙏🕯🌺🙏🌺🕯🙏
Lovely. Thank you ❤
Ty...MERRY CHRISTMAS to You, Zahi 🎄🎁❤️💒👑⚖️📖🕊
Very well presented and very educational too......thanks for your efforts...... God Blessed..... Merry Christmas from the Far East....
God made provisions for a new covenant promise land. Jeremiah 31:36 and Matthew 21:43-44 Amos 5:2
Have a Blessed Merry Christmas my friend....❤❤❤
Merry Christmas ⛄🎄❄️🙏🏻
Zahi 💞
Merry Christmas my bro Zahi
Just beautiful ty for sharing Merry Christmas to you and all Zahi Blessings to you as well 🇺🇸
Luke 2:7, describes baby born in a manger, with shepherds keeping watch over him at night
father god please bless us to serve you more and more...
I was there back in 2018’ true blessing
yes i am free in the name of our lord jesus christ...
Does it snow in some parts of Israel???
This is wonderful to see... ❤
WE ❤ ISRAEL and that most HOLY church, the place of our Lord’s Birth!❤
Thank you 🙏🏻 for taking us!!!!
I like 😊your warm & bright 😀personality... I am same with whom ever I meet.....
Merry Christmas ❤🎉🎄💓🕊💙
Yes, in Jerusalem and the north of Israel
Lovely to see , keep safe zahi
Christmas in Bethlehem is different this year, no tree, no celebrations 😢
Because if the war???😢
IS IT. BECAUSE OF THE WAR????? The reason there are less tourists????💔😔😢
A group of 50, from our Church, we’re here in Feb 2020! Quite The Experience!
I saw a Lutheran church (Reverand Isaac Munther) video yesterday there in Bethlehem Zahi...they had a nativity amidst chunks of rubble concrete, which was a statement in itself...w/20,000+ dead in Gaza.We have to remember that the 'Almighty' rules the world...not the 'mighty.' I am glad that Netanyahu does not represent the goodness of Jews who have always wanted to live in peace together...we 3: Jews, Arabs, and Christians all have the monoethnic religion in common. Have a great Christmas w/your family this year Sahi...''Peace on Earth, Good Will towards men.''🌏☮AND💜✝.
The Lord God of Israel Father of Jesus christ is not islamic god allah The ways and character of the God of Israel and allah are different The lives Jesus lived on earth and mohmad lived was totally their teaching was different
Rubble concrete represent the little baby hostage still in gaza
THANKS FOR VIEW OF YOUR CAMERA TO ALL ON LINE. PRAISE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND ABBA GOD FATHER ALMIGHTY AMEN ALLELUIA I'M SIMON UBAL D'SOUZA AMEN.
Praise the Lord
praise the lord brother...
Thank you for Celebrations a Jesus birthday..💫 🎀🎅Merry Christmas & Happy
New Year's! God bless John 3:16 🎄🕯️🎄🕯️🎄🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 🕯️
Such a wonderful feeling one gets while seeing the birth place of our Lord Thanku for this video and showing the place beautiful church surrounding s Praise the Lord. 🙏
Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her a first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. 8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night
We had visited Bethlehem from India only last May never knowing that there will be a war soon. God bless the people of Israel. Praying that the war comes to an end.
Thanks a lot Zahi for your inspiring video of birthplace of JESUS.How's about pilgrimage tour in the holyland right now,is it ok again?
It's better to wait another month, although it's fine now as well
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah...
Christ is born to bring peace to all.
Merry Christmas Zahi and to everyone .God bless 🙏
brother please conduct a big miracle prayer through out the world...
I believe God is with us Amen
🔥 MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF
JESUS CHRIST, SAVE US
AND THE WHOLE WORLD 🌎
please conduct a big miracle prayer through out the world...
Pray for me to Jesus Christ. 🎉
all the glory to be god...
Peace be with you
Praisethelord.hallelujah.thankqsomuchsir.kamalavasantharao.
GOD BLESS ISRAEL this Xmas. Prayers and hugs to the IDF. ❤❤❤
If you're Christian, why would you say Xmas instead of Christmas?
Praise the Lord ❤
SHALOM ZAHI SHALOM BETHLEHEM SHALOM JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL GOD BLESS THANK YOU МИЛОСТІ І СПАСІННЯ БОЖОГО ІЗРАІЛЮ В ІМЕНІ СИНА БОЖОГО ІСУСА ХРИСТА МАШИАХА АМІНЬ AMEN
Feast day of OUR LADY of BETHLEHEM
is DEC, 30th. Her image is located in
Carmel, Calif in church of San Carlos
Boromeo. Est. by Fr. Junepero Serra 🌹
God bless Israel 🇮🇱🙏
Jesus was born in Bethlehem
Happy Christ Mass Holiday l am Orthodox Christian Tigray Ethiopia
amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen...
Joy to the World for Celebrations a Jesus birthday..💫🇮🇱 Amen🕯️🎄💫🎄🕯️🎄🕯️🎄💫🎁🎀🎅
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God made provisions for a new covenant promise land. Jeremiah 31:36 and Matthew 21:43-44
It’s disturbing it’s about the photo op .Zaih not the Holy moment 😢The mosaic is beautiful! ❤
We also love Palestine and its people. Many of them are Christians. Peace be on earth in the name of Jesus.
Saw that video where you was allowed in to take a video inside
Yes, every can do it
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Holy, Holy, Holy is the kingdom of Israel. ❤
Good to recall our visit in Israel before but is it safe to visit where there is war
“;,Not. Tourist. Believers. Prey for. Pace. In Love ❤. Jesus Christ
everyone legs should kneel down in front of our lord jesus christ...
I wonder how a location with such importance is guarded through the centuries? Who from the moment he was born sought out to protect his birth place? And continue to protect it until now where it is truly guarded.
Does it's looks that no one protects the church?
is this new video. as if I've heard no bombing.. thanks be to God.
Hamas last week tried to bomb that area, but besides that that part is quite quiet
When Jesus Christ was born.
FEAST DAY OF OUR LADY OF
BETHLEHEM
"THIS IS CHRISTMAS OR X MAS."
If the Children that they want to Celebrate this so call tradition CHRISTMAS OR X MAS
You can't help but weep when children and compassionate people know how December 25 entered the world as Christmas and X-Mas. Constantine, the sun worshiper, used to celebrate a day on which Jesus (Yawhushua) was not born every year. He also associated this day with the newly created religion of “Christianity”. This is because it was the year that celebrated the births of Molech, Mithra, Ra/Amunra, in honor of Tammuz, the sun god, to fulfill the wishes of the Babylonian people. Ra, Re is also the name of the Egyptian sun god. And in ancient Babylonian times, on the evening of December 24th, they would burn the "Yule" tree on fire, symbolizing the death of the old Sun God (Thammuz). On the morning of the 25th, they will set up a decorated green tree for the newly rising sun. The word “yule” also refers to children. And "yule" in Chaldee means child. These Babylonian heathens would set up large idols of Molech and Milcom, and place a hot fiery furnace (furnace) under them. A trap door is made in the lap of the idols. While the priests beat the drums loudly, the screams of the dying children in the idols' laps are not heard. 🥲Also, due to the trap door being placed, the bodies of the children would fall over the flames in the furnace. 🥲🥲 This can be learned by examining 2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Kings 16:3, 23:10. Yirmayaw (Jeremiah) warns about this in 10. You can also explore this in yirmayaw 18-24. So, dear and compassionate people, how can you allow the commemoration of this unfortunate massacre to be celebrated on December 25? Not only is it a sun salutation, Constataine has known this memorial day to brutally kill innocent children alive. 🥲A good news for those who stand on one leg and pretend that we will celebrate the birthday of Yawhushua ha Mawsheeakh (Jesus Christ). His birthday Vedic experts and worldly sages have researched and revealed that his birthday falls during the Sukkot festival (Festival of Tabernacles) which falls around the month of September. Those who want to celebrate should try this. This festival is ordained by the Most High God. Not by humans. The prophet Zechariah revealed the punishments that would come to those who did not celebrate this Feast of Tabernacles. So dear ones, stop celebrating the cruel Memorial Day and express a compassionate thought.
May Almighty God guide you to the path of truth
Visit this holy place last june❤
we please to see the holiplace of Lord Jesus birth place Thank
JOHN 16:33
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Amen
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IS IT. BECAUSE OF THE WAR????? The reason there are less tourists????💔😔😢
Yes, because of Hamas
And she brought forth her a first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night Luke 2:7
WHY would the Birth Place of JESUS be in a DIFFERENT PLACE than the Manger??