No. They went because Casear ordered a CENSUS of all the people. A CENSUS is when the people are counted. Men had to take their wives and children, if they had them, to the city of their birth.
Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to register because Joseph traced his lineage back to people from that city.
Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem , as it was told to go to their respective hometowns for the census.
Joseph's ancestral home was Bethlehem. However, at the time he took Mary as his wife he was living in Nazareth.
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She traveled there with her husband Joseph, whose family was from Bethlehem.
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Very difficult, especially because Mary was pregnant with baby Jesus.
Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to be counted in a census so they could be taxed.
Mary rode on a donkey, and I assume, Joseph walked at the side.
because there was a census that was being done and every man had to go to their own hometown.