[Just mythoughts]

5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: ........

The 'course of Abia or Abijah' is the time signature as to when the miraculous conception of John the Baptist took place. On or about the 23rd of Sivan or June 23-24 by our calendar. Six months later the Divine Conception of our Lord and Savior took place.

Peoples during the course of history have had a must need to muss with dates and times to fit their traditions.

As a historical note taxes and census taking did not take place in the 'dead' of winter, but at the end of harvest. That would be around the Feast of Tabernacles, and the literal time of the year Christ was birthed. It is really toooo bad and sad how much modern Christianity ignores the so called Old Testament.

[Elsie]

The 'course of Abia or Abijah' is the time signature as to when the miraculous conception of John the Baptist took place.

Ah!!

I did not look that up; as I thought it was referring to some genealogical data.

THANKS!

[Elsie]

Here ya go, Folks!!

https://www.google.com/search?q=’course+of+Abia+or+Abijah’+&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-ContextMenu&ie=&oe=&rlz=1I7ADRA_enUS475