Stable Best Place for Jesus Birth

I'm tired of people applying 21st Century standards to Jesus birth place    

Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem.


Luke 2:7  "While they were there, the time came for her Child to be born. 7And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn."

A manger in a stable might not be a good place to have a baby today,  but 2,000 years ago a stable was probably the best place for a visitor to Bethlehem to have her first baby.

There are two suggested definitions for what "inn" means.  One type "inn" had a large common room in which people slept on  the floor   .I've forgotten the name of .the  preacher  who pointed out that offering Mary room in a stable would have provided her with privacy for her truly blessed event  she wouldn’t have had in  a large common room.

The alternate "inn" was a guest room in a private home.   Some believe the owner rejected Joseph and Mary because they weren’t  married.   It seems more likely Joseph, to protect Mary's honor ,  told people they were  married and he was the  father. 

Most guest room owners probably had a policy of not offering a room to  those with young children or women about to give birth.  New babies would  be undesirable in either type "inn" because of their crying.  

Most people think of Luke as if  it said "because there was no room --- in the inn." instead of  '" because there was no room for them in the inn."   The inn might have had room for  someone other than Joseph and Mary.

Biblehub.com  points  out the stable would have been empty and clean because the animals were in the fields  Mary had privacy and didn’t have to worry that  people would complain when her baby cried.

The stable, unlike the inns, had ample room for the shepherds who came to Jesus birthday party. The shepherds assured Mary people wanted her baby even if   "inn-keepers" had rejected  her because of  the baby.

Jesus birth in a stable and the arrival  of  the shepherds symbolized the connection to David, the shepherd who became King. Where  else would the Good Shepherd be born if not in a stable?