W. Hamilton, along with various other students of the history of Bethlehem, indicate that Justin Martyr, of the second century C.E., was the first to claim that Jesus was born in a grotto, without specifying which one.
यह ज़ाहिर है कि खुद यीशु के पार्थिव जीवन - काल में, उसने अपने जन्म के बारे में तफ़सील का विज्ञापन नहीं किया ।