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Was Jesus born on a farm?
It’s the story that everyone knows: Jesus was born in a barn, surrounded by farm animals and shepherds, because there was no room at the inn. … The word is used elsewhere in the bible as a word to mean “private upper room” where Jesus and his disciples ate the Last Supper in the Gospel of Mark.
Where does it say that Jesus was born in a stable?
Mary laid her newborn child in a manger (cf Luke 2:7). From this detail it has been correctly deduced that Jesus was born in a stable, in an inhospitable – one might even say unworthy – space, which nevertheless provided the necessary privacy for the sacred event . . .