The gospels of the New Testament contradict each other on important points.

These books were written decades after the crucifixion by unknown authors.
Even the dating of the birth of Jesus in the gospels is unclear and contains
misstatements of fact.

The Gospel according to Luke says that Jesus was born in the year when
Caesar Augustus ordered a census for the purpose of taxation and that this
happened at a time when Herod reigned in Judea and when Quirinius was
governor of Syria.

The problem is that Herod died four years before Christ and that during his
time of ruling, the governor of Syria was not Quirinius . The only
historical mention of a census ordered by Augustus was by the Jewish
historian Josephus, but that happened six years after Jesus was supposed to
have been born, and did not require people to return to their places of
birth.

Probably, the reason for all this confusion stems from the fact that the Old
Testament prediction for Messiah has him coming from Bethlehem. Big
problem -- Jesus's parents were apparently from the town of Nazareth and if
they had a child he probably would have been delivered there.