Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem for the census because it was a requirement by the government for all residents to return to their ancestral hometowns to be counted.
Bethlehem is insiginifcant to the Jewish religion. While some may travel there, it is not a key site.
A Census is taken every 10 years. It is used to have a poo.
Although it said Egypt, it is believed that the land of Goshen or the Sinai Peninsula is where Joseph, Mary and Jesus escaped.
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You are probably referring to the Census of Quirinius which was held during the reign of Augustus. In 4 BC, on the death of Herod the Great who had ruled the client kingdom of Judea (which covered a territory which was much larger that Judea) was divided among his three sons. Herod Aechelaus became ethanrch of one of these states, Judaea (biblical Judah) Samaria and Idumaea (biblical Edom). His rule was so bad that Augustus deposed him after a petition form his people against him in 6 AD. Augustus merged Juadea, Samaria and Idumaea into the Roman province of Judaea. It was a satellite of the larger Roman province of Syria and was governed by a prefect, an official who was a subordinate of the governor of Syria. The other states remained client kingdoms. When Publius Sulpicius Quirinius was appointed governor of Syria and Coponius became prefect of Judaea to enforce Roman direct rule in 6/7 AD, to hold a census. This was more than a count of the population. It was an enrolment for taxation purposes. The head of the family had to provide his name, age and relationship to him of the household and details of their property, and anyone who lived on it, including employees, lodgers and slaves. A passage in the gospel of Luke says that people had to go to their towns of origins to register and that this was why Jesus, a Galilean, was born in Bethlehem, in Judea. Joseph and Mary had to travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem because Joseph was a descendant of "the house and family of David". However, this doubted by biblical scholars. It would place the birth of Jesus at a later date than that given in the Gospel of Matthew and in another passage in this same gospel which say that Jesus was born during the reign of Herod the Great, who died ten years earlier. Moreover, there is no historical mention of a Roman census which covered the entire population. They concerned only Roman citizens. In addition to this, Roman censuses did not require people going back to their places of origin. It was the census takers who travelled to people, not the other way round. Finally, Galilee was not part of the Roman province of Judaea and remained the client kingdom of Galilee and Perea.
Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem , as it was told to go to their respective hometowns for the census.
Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to be counted in a census so they could be taxed.
because there was a census that was being done and every man had to go 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.
Yes, there was a mandatory census so they could be counted. They traveled a long way, too!
Matthew's Gospel indicates that Mary and Joseph were from Bethlehem in Judea. While returning from Egypt, they were warned in a dream to turn aside and go to Nazareth in Galilee, instead. Luke's Gospel says that Mary and Joseph were from Nazareth in Galilee. They travelled to Bethlehem for a census, then returned to Nazareth.
Mary's father did not go to Bethlehem for the census because Mary's father is not mentioned in the Bible. Instead, Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus, traveled to Bethlehem with her husband Joseph, as required by the Roman census decree issued by Caesar Augustus. This journey fulfilled the prophecy that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem, as foretold in the Old Testament.
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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.
A:In Luke's Gospel, Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethelehem from Nazareth for a census and stayed in a stable, there being no room in the inn. In Matthew's Gospel, Bethlehem was the home town of Mary and Joseph, and the only reference is to the house where the magi visited them. In this account, the house is presumably their own home.
The emperor announced that everyone in the land had to be counted. Men had to return to their hometown. There they would tell their name and what land they owned. Jospeh belonged to the family line of David. King David's birthplace was Bethlehem. So he went to be counted. Like a census.