From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!lanl-a!jhf
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: CHRISTMAS - (nf)
Article-I.D.: lanl-a.196
Posted: Tue Jan  4 08:43:30 1983
Received: Wed Jan  5 01:35:54 1983
References: utcsstat.486

utcsstat!wagner asks when Jesus was really born (if not December 25
or January 6).  As I understand it, He was probably born in the spring,
since St. Matthew tells us that shepherds were keeping watch over their
flocks by night, and that such watches were kept only in spring, when
there are lambs about.