Concerning the story of Jesus" birth, the version presented in the Gospel according to Matthew is very different from that which is presented in Luke. In both stories, Jesus is born to Mary and Joseph in the Town of Bethlehem and spends the majority of his life in the land of Galilee; all other aspects of the two narratives are not shared. The more detailed and longer version that Luke provides in his Gospel was ultimately derived from the same general story about the birth of Christ as was Matthew's, but has qualities unique to itself (Brown: Messiah 46). For example, in both stories the birth of Christ is presented in a stereotypical angelic annunciation. The annunciation is stereotypical in that throughout the bible, the word of god is given to humans (Jews) by an angel often times in a dream. The Gospel of Luke has Mary experience the annunciation, while Matthew has Joseph receiving the annunciation in a dream (a frequently used method of providing divine word in Matthews's narrative). For example, Joseph was visited by an angel in a dream three additional times in just the infancy narrative alone. An angel warns Joseph to leave Israel (2:13), informs him to bring his family back to the promised land (2:20), and advised to take his family to Galilee to live in peace (2:22). This difference of to whom the annunciation is given in Matthew deems Joseph the hero of the story. Matthew depicts Joseph as "a very sensitive Jewish observer of the law." (Brown: Advent 32) Seeing that Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, is a law biding Jew, the Christian favoring Jews and Gentile of Matthew's community felt following Jesus" teachings is not a evil and corrupt as the majority of the people felt. Also, the visitors to the baby Jesus on the night he is born are in Luke, shepherds who were visited and informed about Christ's divinity by an angel while they tended their sheep. The wise Magi are those who visit the Messiah in Matthew's Gospel, and they continue as important figures in the rest of the story.