According to the Gospel of Matthew Herod ordered the execution of all young male children in the village of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of his throne to a newborn King of the Jews whose birth had been announced to him by the Magi.

According to some scholars, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is built over a cave that was originally a shrine to Adonis-Tammuz.

According to his own words an important turning point was a visit at the late nineties at the University of Bethlehem on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

According to Gibbs, Herod and the Magi already expected the child to be born in Bethlehem, just a few miles south of Jerusalem.

According to Brown, there is no uniform agreement among critical scholars on some details of the historicity discussions, e. g. most of those scholars who reject the historicity of the birth at Bethlehem argue for a birth at Nazareth, a few suggest Capernaum while locations as far away as Chorazin have been hypothesized.

The Nativity of Christ is a three-day celebration: the formal title of the first day is " The Nativity According to the Flesh of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ ", and celebrates not only the Nativity of Jesus, but also the Adoration of the Shepherds of Bethlehem and the arrival of the Maji ; the second day is referred to as the " Synaxis of the Theotokos ", and commemorates the role of the Virgin Mary in the Incarnation ; the third day is known as the " Third Day of the Nativity ", and is also the feast day of the Protodeacon and Protomartyr Saint Stephen.

According to Tom Selwyn, the most authoritative voice on the topography of Rachel's tomb, R. A. S. Macalister advanced the view in 1912 that the identification with Bethlehem was based on a copyist's mistake.

According to Bethlehem University, " ccess to Rachel ’ s Tomb is now restricted to tourists entering from Israel.

According to the biography on his official website ( http :// www. shoebat. com / bio. php ), Shoebat was born in Bethlehem, the grandson of the Mukhtar of Beit Sahour, whom Shoebat describes as an associate of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammad Amin al-Husayni.

According to the Gospel of Luke, his birth occurred in the town of Bethlehem during the reigns of King Herod the Great of Judaea and the Roman Emperor Augustus, and he was the son of the Virgin Mary, who conceived him by the power of the Holy Spirit.

According to the chronology in Luke, the family left Bethlehem soon after arriving, when Jesus was eight days old.

According to an article in the Boston Evening Transcript in 1935, Bellamy contributed quite a lot to the town of Bethlehem:

According to Grayson Lee, who created the snow penis sculpture in 2007, most of its residents were " heartbroken " to leave.

According to the Italian government, there were 4, 570, 317 foreign residents in Italy as of January 2011.

According to his classmate Klepetař, like most residents of the predominantly German Sudetenlaender, " Gödel considered himself always Austrian and an exile in Czechoslovakia " (" ein Österreicher im Exil in der Tschechoslowakei ").

According to the United States scholar Nicholas Eberstadt and demographer Judith Banister, vital statistics and personal information on residents are kept by agencies on the ri, or ni (,: village, the local administrative unit ) level in rural areas and the dong (,: district or block ) level in urban areas.

According to the 2011 census, the province of Prince Edward Island has 140, 204 residents.

According to the Spanish government there were 5, 730, 667 foreign residents in Spain as of January 2011.

According to Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, at the time of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, Jerusalem was populated by only few hundred residents or less, which is insufficient for an empire stretching from the Euphrates to Eilath.

According to the Toledo Metropolitan Council of Governments, the Toledo / Northwest Ohio region of 10 counties has over 1 million residents.

According to Eurostat, Bucharest has a Larger Urban Zone of 2, 151, 880 residents.

According to the arrangement, al-Dari and his descendants were only permitted to tax the residents for their land and the waqf of the Ibrahimi Mosque was entrusted to them.

According to local residents and unnamed American and Yemeni government officials, on 14 July 2011 US manned aircraft or drones attacked and destroyed a police station in Mudiya in Abyan Province which had been occupied by al Qaeda militants.

According to census of 2001, 92 % of the MP residents followed Hinduism, while others are Muslim ( 6 %), Jain ( 0. 9 %), Christians ( 0. 3 %), Buddhists ( 0. 3 %), and Sikhs ( 0. 2 %).

According to January 2012 official estimates, Chișinău proper has a population of 723, 500 and the municipality of Chișinău is home to 794, 800 residents.

According to the US Census it was the county in Iowa with the fewest residents recorded for 2000 and 2010.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency, 84 % of Rwandans and 85 % of Burundians are Hutu, with Tutsis the next largest ethnic group at 15 % and 14 % of residents in Rwanda and Burundi, respectively.

According to the last Romanian census, from 2011, there were 227, 961 people living within the city of Brașov, making it the 8th most populous city in Romania, and the metropolitan area is home to 335, 668 residents.

According to the Census Bureau, Starr County had the highest percentage of Hispanic residents of any county in the United States.

According to the article, Pendarvis and his associates, part of the Free Town Project, planned to buy parcels of land in the county, then move in enough of their supporters to outvote earlier residents and take control of local government.

According to statistics from the 2001 census, the area has a very high proportion of young residents ( 28. 4 % 25 – 44 years old ) and a very high educational level ( 30. 7 % hold a first degree or better ).

According to data from the 2010 U. S. Census, Osage County is the whitest county in Missouri, with 98. 85 percent of residents being white.

According to alternate theories of the term's origin, " Free State of Jones " came to be associated with Jones County for one of two reasons: 1 ) in reference to the county's reputation as a sparsely populated " backwater " of the young state, whose few residents were notorious for their disdain for organized governmental authority, or 2 ) due to a period of time in the early 1840s when, due to low population numbers and lack of legal proceedings, the county was left without duly-inducted legal and / or civil authorities.

According to a May 2004 Time Magazine article on obesity in the United States, Jefferson County had the highest percentage of obese adult residents ( 26. 1 %) of any county in the U. S. In that context, the percentage measured were those with a body mass index between 30 and 40 ( any measure greater than 40 corresponds to morbid obesity ).

According to the United States Census Bureau, this county has the third-largest percentage of black residents of any U. S. county, with blacks comprising an 84 % majority of the population.

According to an estimate released in 2009 by the United States Census Bureau, Wayne County, of which Richmond is the county seat, had a relatively high population of divorced residents: 19. 2 percent.

According to one major producer, materials for a typical plastic sign are approximately 25% less costly than for a comparable neon unit.

According to a number of studies, the important predictors are the nature and management of the client's anxiety as well as the accessibility of the helping person.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to the definition by IUPAC, the former two are alkanes, whereas the third group is called cycloalkanes.

According to the formulations of Daniels, abjads differ from alphabets in that only consonants, not vowels, are represented among the basic graphemes.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

According to RFE / RL, comparable sums are believed to be transferred through non-bank systems, implying that cash remittances make up approximately 30 percent of Armenia's GDP in the first half of 2008.

According to those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

According to Arminius, " God regards no one in Christ unless they are engrafted in him by faith.

According to SonyBMG, there are no plans to release The Sicilian Defence.

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

According to Cavalli-Sforza, Ainu are in the same genetic cluster as the " Northeast and East Asian ".

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

According to Hume, the difference between the two is that ideas are less vivacious than impressions.

According to Alberta Venture magazine's list of the 50 largest employers in the province, the largest employers are:

According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

According to federal guidelines, only approved religious symbols — of which there are 38 — can be placed on government headstones or memorial plaques.

According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

According to Kant, beauty is objective and universal ; thus certain things are beautiful to everyone.

According to the study, more than nine out of 10 consumers are familiar with and have tried these foods, and about half report eating them frequently.

According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Ælle and three of his sons are said to have landed at a place called Cymensora and fought against the local Britons.