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Caesar Agustus issued an order for everyone to go to their hometown and be taxed. It was also part of a census.
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Mary&Joseph travelled on a donkey to Bethlehem because everyone had to go back to there home-town.
Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to register because Joseph traced his lineage back to people from that city.
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.
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 went to Bethlehem on horseback, and not by foot.
Matthew's Gospel indicates that Mary and Joseph lived in Bethlehem until the birth of Jesus, but then moved to Nazareth after a sojourn in Egypt. Luke's Gospel says they lived in Nazareth, both before and after the birth of Jesus.
According to the roman decree , they went to Bethlehem , as it was Josephs hometown.
To go back to their own hometown.
AnswerIn 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.
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.
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.
Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to be counted in a census so they could be taxed.
In Luke's Gospel, they left Bethlehem and travelled to Galilee, stopping of at Jerusalem to visit the Temple. Each year, they travelled to Jerusalem for the Passover, but apparently never revisited Bethlehem.In Matthew's Gospel, they left Bethlehem and travelled to Egypt, where they remained until King Herod died. Although they had never previously been to Galilee, they then travelled to Nazareth in Galilee, so that Jesus might be called a Nazarene (Matthew 2:24).
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.
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.
To pay no one. Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to be counted for a census. So they went there by law.
It was the angel that visited Joseph.
They continued to reside in Nazareth until they had to make a trip to Bethlehem for a census. Mary gave birth to Jesus while they were there.
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In a stable , in Bethlehem. Mary and Joseph had traveled there to comply with a census .
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