# Luke 2:15

> When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

— Luke 2:15, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Bethlehem** (Judea · today Bethlehem) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/bethlehem

## Who appears

- **Jesus** (the Christ) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/people/jesus

## When

- 6-4 BC? (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Luke 2:1-2 dates itself by the census of Quirinius. Josephus (Antiquities XVIII.1) puts that census in AD 6; Matthew 2 puts the birth under Herod, who died in 4 BC.

## Who ruled

- **Augustus**, emperor of Rome, 27 BC – AD 14 · Source: Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Augustus; Res Gestae Divi Augusti
- **Herod the Great**, king of Judea, 37-4 BC · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XIV-XVII
- **Archelaus**, ethnarch of Judea, 4 BC – AD 6 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.13; Jewish War II.7
- **Herod Antipas**, tetrarch of Galilee, 4 BC – AD 39 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8-XVIII.7
- **Philip**, tetrarch of Ituraea, 4 BC – AD 34 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8, XVIII.4

## See also

- Matthew 2:1-2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/2/1
- 1 Peter 3:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-peter/3/22
- Exodus 3:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/3/3
- Matthew 2:9-11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/2/9
- Luke 24:51 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/24/51

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/2/15
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/2
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).