Question: Which year is closest to the year of Jesus’ birth-4 BC, 1 BC, 0, 1 BC, or 4 AD?
Answer: 4 BC
Comments: The Anno Domini system attempted to calculate time from the birth of Jesus, but is assumed to be slightly off. It was developed by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus aka “Dennis the Little” in Rome in 525. It was not until the 8th century that the system began to be adopted in Western Europe. In 1422, Portugal became the last Western European country to adopt the Anno Domini system.
Scholars assume the system is slightly skewed based upon the fact that King Herod, featured prominently in Matthew's account of the magi and as such the birth of Jesus(Matthew 2), died in 4 BCE.
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