Bart Ehrman & Why Joseph Went to Bethlehem | The Jimmy Akin Podcast

The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 035 (May 26, 2025) Skeptics like Bart Ehrman pose a challenge: Why does the Gospel of Matthew depict Joseph as living in Bethlehem, while Luke depicts him as living in Nazareth? Is this a contradiction? Can it be reconciled? And are all such reconciliations “forced”? In this episode, Jimmy Akin points out an obvious solution . . . and then grounds the reasons for it in a simple reading of the Gospel of Luke . . . alone. Timecodes 00:00 – Coming Up 00:22 – Intro 00:55 – Where Did Joseph Live? 01:41 – Independence vs Harmonization 08:00 – Enter Luke 11:06 – The First Joseph Passage in Luke 11:55 – The Second Joseph Passage 13:26 – Returning to Your Own City 14:04 – Joseph Returns to Bethlehem 16:38 – What Luke Meant 20:40 – A Third Joseph Passage 21:33 – Were They Rich? 24:00 – No Room in the Kataluma 26:39 – Closing/Outro 27:34 – End