When was JESUS born?

[patrick457]

No difference in order to our salvation, yes!, you could be a great saint ignoring the theme , but these topics’ taste must be respected and in any case… I like them!!
I have no thorough knowledge on this topic, but I know historical date of Jesus Death and Resurrection is 30 AD (April?).
So (careful! it’s not a scientific argument but a “devotional” one), considered that, as I heard time ago from some expert, year zero technically didn’t exist (1 BC December 31 was followed by 1 AD January 1), if Jesus were born in 5 BC December 25, He would be exactly 33 years old in His Passion time, as traditionally we think (without being required to believe it, sure).
It’s a mere hypothesis, with no basis except my “devotional taste”.

I know I’m replying to a post made over four years ago, but I just can’t control myself.

The traditional interpretation was that Jesus was thirty-three and a half years of age at the time of His death. We apparently get this idea, not from the Gospels themselves (it is very difficult to examine the chronology of the Synoptics because of the episodic nature of their material; John explicitly mentions three Passovers and a few other feasts in between within his narrative, giving us at least more or less two years), but from an interpretation of Daniel’s Seventy Weeks - Daniel 9:27 (“And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering”) is specifically understood to be a Messianic prophecy (though of course it is also applied by other writers to the Antichrist, just as many folks do today). Applying the logic “half of the week” equals three days and a half + ‘day’ equals ‘year’ = three years and a half, we arrive at the traditional estimated duration of Jesus’ public ministry.