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.
Read Luke 2 in the Christian Bible.
They went to Bethlehem to have the Census taken of their family. They could find no room in the inn. So, they had to go to a stable. Mary gave birth to Jesus. The shepards came after the angels told them their savior had been born. And they worshiped Jesus.
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.
When they arrived at Bethlehem, they looked for a place for Mary to have Jesus. They were knocking on doors and none of the people had a place to put Mary and Joseph. Finally a person answered the door and said "I have a stable you can put your wife in." They took it and had the adorable baby boy named "Jesus" they put him in a manger with a cloth wrapped around him.
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.
They stayed at Nazareth, and Joseph was a carpenter by trade.
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The Bible does not tell us what conversations Joseph had with the people he was looking to stay with when he and Mary arrived in Bethlehem.
In Christianity, Bethlehem is known as the birthplace of Jesus. Joseph arrived in Bethlehem with his very pregnant wife, Mary and could not find accommodations at any inn. Desperate for shelter, they retired to a stable and Joseph made Mary as comfortable as he could in a small manger. There, she gave birth to the infant Jesus.
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.
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She traveled there with her husband Joseph, whose family was from Bethlehem.
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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.