Joeseph took Mary to Bethlem due to the fact that Caesar Agustus had ordered a census and told the people that they must return to their birth country in order to be counted and so that he could take money from them. Joseph had to travel back to Bethlem for the census, since Jesus was about to be born they had him there so when old enough he would travel to Bethlem.-Lil Harley Quinn
According to Luke's Gospel, Joseph went from Nazareth to Bethlehem during the reign of King Herod. Joseph could not have gone there to be taxed, as Herod had no right under Roman law to tax residents of Galilee. Herod did not even have the right to count residents of Galilee for taxation, nor any interest in doing so.
Raymond E. Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament) says about the supposed census, "The best explanation is that, although Luke likes to set his Christian drama in the context of well-known events from antiquity, sometimes he does so inaccurately."
As for Mary's presence at a tax assessment, Ranke-Heinemann says this was not in the least required, since only heads of families were obliged to register. Since they would have passed through Jerusalem, Ranke-Heinemann finds no explanation for Joseph not to leave Mary at the home of her cousin Elisabeth, instead taking her at such a late stage of pregnancy to Bethlehem, where they knew no one and could not even find accommodation.
Scholars have long pondered this question and have been unable arrive at an answer. They say that there was no Roman census during the time of King Herod, but even if there had been, it could not have applied to the autonomous territory of Judea. The purpose of a Roman census was to determine taxes, and Herod was free to raise taxes in whatever way he wished.
And if there had been a census just as described in Luke's Gospel, it would not have made sense to require entire populations to migrate to distant cities and towns just to be counted, as that would have negated the purpose of the census. If the purpose of a Roman census was to determine taxes, then the Romans needed to know where people actually lived, so that they could levy their taxes on the people where they did live, not where they claimed their distant ancestors might once have lived.
Opinion
Joseph returned as was required of him.
Joseph and Mary travelled there to their ancestral home in order to be recorded in the Roman census.
because mary was going to have a baby
Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem , as it was told to go to their respective hometowns for the census.
Mary and Joseph journeyed to Bethlehem from Nazareth (in the north - in the region of Galilee) when Mary was pregnant. Jesus was then born in Bethlehem. The family settled there for two years or more and then returned to nazareth where Jesus grew up. The only other record we have of his childhood was when Mary and Joseph took him on a visit to Jerusalem (NOT Bethlehem) when he was 12 years old.
Joseph's ancestral home was Bethlehem. However, at the time he took Mary as his wife he was living in Nazareth.
Bethlehem
She traveled there with her husband Joseph, whose family was from Bethlehem.
In a sentence diagram, "Mary" and "Joseph" would be connected by a horizontal line as compound subjects. "Took" is the predicate verb, and "Jesus" is the direct object connected to "took" by a diagonal line. "Bethlehem" would be diagrammed as the object of the preposition "to."
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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.
Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to register for taxes, as mandated by the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus. This journey fulfilled the prophecy that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, as Jesus was born there.