The Jesus story has details that is most definitely made up i just realized!!!

[GrandizerII]

Corresponding, sure, but not to the bits that aren't accepted as historical by secular scholars. Secular scholars searching for a historical Jesus don't expect him to have been born in Bethlehem; they expect him to have come from Nazareth because outside of the nativity accounts (which were each an attempt to force fulfillment of the Micah prophecy) not one mention of Bethlehem exists in the New Testament.

But there are (if I recall correctly), NO verses that claim Jesus was born in Nazareth. Why would historians look for his birth there?   He was called 'Jesus of Nazareth' because the family moved back to Nazareth after his birth.

Boru

Wherever a potentially historical Jesus would've been born, the fact is that neither of the two nativity stories have any credibility to them, so they these scholars don't expect a historical Jesus to have been born in Bethlehem just because the nativity stories say so. What secular scholars searching for the historical Jesus expect to see is a Jesus who was known to have hailed from Nazareth (regardless of his birthplace). A Jesus born in Bethlehem is not one they're looking for.