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.
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.
Mary traveled to Bethlehem by riding on a donkey with Joseph.
Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to register because Joseph traced his lineage back to people from that city.
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.
Bethlehem
She traveled there with her husband Joseph, whose family was from Bethlehem.
a census
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a person
Very difficult, especially because Mary was pregnant with baby Jesus.
The biblical figure who famously rode into Bethlehem on a donkey, according to the story of Mary and Joseph's journey, is Joseph.