This is the beginning of one of the 4 main accounts of the Christmas Story (the Nativity Scene – the birth of Jesus) in the Bible. The others are located at Matthew 1:18-25; Matthew 2:1-12; and Luke 2:1-20.

This is the first of two times Matthew recounts Jesus’s birth, and the first of four times it is told in the Bible – all from the Gospels.

Aaron did it the best (the Jesus piece before the Jesus piece)

As the Bible was written in a time of dictators, politics were not necessarily as they are these days. With the bipartisan government America now has, each party often slanders the opposing side during campaigns and what not, and are sometimes bitter and even aggressive if the opponent wins.

By “the least of these”, Jesus most likely means the poor and the less fortunate. Jesus’s ministry has a strong focus on the poor, as he himself was a poor minister. This is why Catholic priests & nuns now take a vow of poverty.

Mother Teresa once had someone ask her if they could buy a plane ticket to fly with her and talk to her and learn from her. Mother Teresa told that person to take that money they had for the plane ticket and give it to the poor, for they could learn more from the poor than she could ever teach them.

Legendary producer Pete Rock is the man behind this track’s instrumentation

A reference to the title of the project this song released on, his third album, “Industry Shakedown”

Indeed, Bumpy Knuckles has been around for at least ten years – he first appeard on Kool G. Rap’s 1990 track Money in the Bank, and he’s still climbing

A much more impressive “killing time” pun than we’ve heard elsewhere

Many Maritime museums consist of wrecked ships, so this continues the metaphor of his friend dying being a ship sinking