Why did Marie and Joseph go to Bethlehem?

He had to go, because there was a census that every one had to go to the place of their birth. Joseph was born in Bethlehem.

Joseph and Mary had traveled to Bethlehem because there was a cencis and everyy man had to go to the town to where he was born.

Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem , as it was told to go to their respective hometowns for the census.

Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to register with the Roman Government. Unbeknown to anyone God planned that Mary and Joseph go to Bethlehem so that a prophecy about the Messiah could be fulfilled, and that prophecy was that the coming Messiah would come out of Bethlehem. Jesus the Christ fulfilled that prophecy when He was born to Mary in Bethlehem.

To go back to their own hometown.

Mary and Joseph were obliged to go to Bethlehem for the census by the Roman authorities. In a sense you could also say God led them, since it was ordained that Christ would be born in Bethlehem.

Answer In Luke's Gospel, Joseph and Mary came from the city of Nazareth to go to Bethlehem. In Matthew's Gospel, Bethlehem seems to have already been the home town of Joseph and Mary. In this gospel, they came from nowhere, and only emigrated to Nazareth some years later, after their sojourn in Egypt.

Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to be counted in a census so they could be taxed.

They went into hiding in Egypt.

They went from Galilee to Bethlehem because of the Roman census. Which meant that Joseph had to be in his home town along with his wife, Mary.

In Luke's Gospel, Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to be counted in the census of Quirinius, although the Gospel does not mention the census again after they left Nazareth. Mary gave birth to Jesus in in a manger at Bethlehem, after which they were visited by shepherds and they then travelled to Jerusalem and back to Nazareth. In Matthew's Gospel, Mary and Joseph had a house, and Bethlehem seems to have been their home town. When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, magi came to visit him. Mary and Joseph were warned not to go to Jerusalem, but to flee from Bethlehem to Egypt.

But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world. So Joseph had to go to his home city, Bethlehem to register.

They went to Egypt for a period of time.

Egypt , to escape Herod Thanks so much

Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem because the Romans(KING HEROD) wanted to take a census.

She traveled there with her husband Joseph, whose family was from Bethlehem.

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Saint Joseph was born in Bethlehem.

Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to register because Joseph traced his lineage back to people from that city.

To pay no one. Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to be counted for a census. So they went there by law.

Joseph went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, to Bethlehem(Luke 2:4)

A: It is in Matthew's Gospel that Joseph and Mary were going to return to Bethlehem some time after the birth of Jesus. In Luke's Gospel, Joseph had no reason ever to go to Bethlehem again, and the gospel makes it plain that although the young family travelled from Nazareth to Jerusalem each year for the Passover, they never went to Bethlehem. Bethlehem, not Nazareth, was the home town of Joseph and Mary in Matthew's Gospel. They fled from Bethlehem to Egypt for fear of King Herod, who sought to have Jesus killed. After Herod had died, they began the return journey to their home in Bethlehem but, being warned in a dream, Joseph turned aside with his family and travelled to Galilee instead. There they settled in a city called Nazareth (Matthew 2:23).

We do not know what was in Joseph or Mary's mind that led them to Bethlehem before Jesus was born. perhaps there was a compelling reason for them to go there at that particular time. We do know that God played a very large part in why they went to Bethlehem because it had been prophesied before hand that the Messiah would come out of Bethlehem and that prophecy had to be fulfilled (See Micah 5:2). All we know is that in the mind of Joseph and Mary was that they had to go to Bethlehem at that particular time. We have seen in Scripture more than once that God has directed persons to do certain things and unbeknown to them they were fulfilling a purpose for God.

Jean-Marie-Joseph-Pantaléon Pelletier died in 1924.

Jean-Marie-Joseph-Pantaléon Pelletier was born in 1860.