They took one donkey for Mary to rest upon.
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There is no mention that Mary and Joseph had a donkey in any of the Gospels, or elsewhere in Scripture. One can assume that they walked, but the bottom line is that no one can be sure what their mode of travel might have been.
If Mary and Joseph left Nazareth because of the census undertaken in the time of Quirinius, they must have left in the year 6 CE, more than ten years after the death of King Herod, because that is when Quirinius was governor of Syria and that is also the year of the first Roman census in the Levant.
On the other hand, Matthew's Gospel says that Nazareth was not the home town of Mary and Joseph until long after the birth of Jesus, since this gospel describes Bethlehem as their home town and says that they only turned aside and travelled to Nazareth after returning from Egypt. The best explanation for this is given by Raymond E. Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament), who says that, although Luke likes to set his Christian drama in the context of well-known events from antiquity, sometimes he does so inaccurately. If Luke was carelessly inaccurate about his historical facts, we can not say when or whether Mary and Joseph began a journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem.
In Luke's Gospel, yes, they travelled from Nazareth to Bethlehem for a census, then returned home to Nazareth shortly after the birth of Jesus.
In Matthew's Gospel, no. Bethlehem was their home town but they fled to Egypt for fear of King Herod. They were travelling back to Bethlehem when Joseph was warned in a dream, and they turned aside and travelled to Nazareth instead.
The journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem occurs only in Luke's Gospel, which says that Joseph was required to be in Bethlehem for a census. We find Mary and Joseph travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, but the gospel makes no mention of Mary riding anything. Because of the apparent impossibility of a heavily pregnant young woman walking all the way, it has become widely assumed that she must have ridden a donkey. However, Luke also makes their poverty clear, for example in having them sacrifice two pigeons at the Temple, a small sacrifice permitted only for the very poor. A poor village carpenter would certainly not have owned a donkey, and no one with the means to own a donkey would have lent them such an important asset for such a long and perilous journey, from which they might not return.
Matthew's Gospel is no help, since this account says that Bethlehem was the home town of Mary and Joseph and they therefore had no need to travel there. After the birth of Jesus, they did travel to Egypt and years later begin a return journey to Bethlehem, although being warned in a dream of further dangers they turned aside and travelled to Galilee, where they settled in a city called Nazareth. In this case, it is quite credible that Mary rode a donkey both to Egypt and on the return, since they were now rich, having received gifts of Gold, frankincense and myrrh from the wise men.
Another Answer:
She rode a donkey to Jerusalem with Joseph. Upon getting there, they realised there was no spare rooms no matter where they looked. Finally an innkeeper offered them a place in his manager and so having accepted his offer Mary gave birth to baby Jesus in a manager.
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Luke's Gospel gives us the story of Joseph and Mary travelling from Nazareth to Bethlehem, but he does not mention how they got there, or whether Mary was fortunate enough to have ridden an animal.
Since such a long and arduous journey on foot seems so improbable for a young woman in her late pregnancy, later Christian tradition says that she rode a donkey. Against this, a poor village carpenter, who could only offer two pigeons at the Temple (Luke 2:24), could never have afforded to hire a donkey for this long journey.
william chaffin
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Luke's Gospel says that Mary and Joseph had to travel from Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem in Judea, and be counted there for the census. However, scholars say that not only was the census at the wrong time for the nativity story in Luke's Gospel, there would never have been a requirement for Mary and Joseph to travel from Galilee where they would be taxed, to Judea where any census record would have no value in ensuring the collection of taxes. They say that the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem simply did not happen.
The name is not mentioned .
We do not know where Joseph was born. His ancestral home town was Bethlehem but he was probably not born there. Perhaps he was born in Nazareth where he was living at the time he tool Mary as his wife.
At the time of Luke's journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, Mary and Joseph were only bethrothed, and Mary was still a virgin. We can assume that they were both in their teens, with Mary probably in her early teens. Their parents would likely still have been alive and less than forty years old. If there really was a census during the reign of King Herod, something most scholars dipute strongly, then Joseph's parents would have been expected to go Bethlehem as well. Tradition tends to support the notion that Mary was also descended from King David, although the Bible is silent on this, in which case we could also expect her parents to travel to Bethlehem as well. However, for some reason, Luke's Gospel makes no mention of the extended family travelling together to Bethlehem.
A:In Matthew's Gospel, Mary and Joseph faced danger from King Herod, who sought to have Jesus killed. They took the baby Jesus from their home in Bethlehem to Egypt. After Herod died, they began the return journey to Bethlehem, but were warned in a dream that Archelaus, Herod's son and successor as king of Judea, was still a danger to Jesus. They therefore turned aside and travelled to start a new home in the city of Nazareth in Galilee, out of reach of Archelaus. In Luke's Gospel, Mary and Joseph faced the inconvenience of travelling from their home in Nazareth for a census in Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. As they faced no danger from Herod, they journeyed from Bethlehem to Jerusalem a few days after the birth of Jesus, to present him at the Temple. They then returned peacefully to their home in Nazareth.
cartpeter
Very difficult, especially because Mary was pregnant with baby Jesus.
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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yesbie
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.
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