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What event brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem?
a census
Why did Mary and Joseph have to go to Bethlehem for the census?
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.
Why did Joseph and Mary go to the city?
Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to be counted in a census so they could be taxed.
Why did Mary and Joseph travel alone to Bethlehem?
Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem , as it was told to go to their respective hometowns for the census.
Where Joseph and Mary went to register for census?
Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to register because Joseph traced his lineage back to people from that city.
Did Mary and Joseph go to Bethlehem because they had to deport?
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.
What did Mary and Joseph have to do to obey the order for a census?
Luke's Gospel says that Mary and Joseph had to travel from Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem in Judea, and be counted there for the census. However, scholars say that not only was the census at the wrong time for the nativity story in Luke's Gospel, there would never have been a requirement for Mary and Joseph to travel from Galilee where they would be taxed, to Judea where any census record would have no value in ensuring the collection of taxes. They say that the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem simply did not happen.
When is the time for counting all the people?
Are you referring to the census that luke mentions as the reason for why Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem? We have no historical record of such a census.
Where was Mary's husband Joseph born?
We do not know anything about Joseph or where he was born, but we can make an educated guess. People tended to live in the town in which they were born. In Matthew's Gospel, Bethlehem seems to be the home town of Mary and Joseph, so Joseph was probably born in Bethlehem. In Luke's Gospel, Nazareth was the home town of Mary and Joseph, so Joseph was probably born in Nazareth.
Why were Joseph and Mary traveling to Bethlehem?
because there was a census that was being done and every man had to go to their own hometown.
Why did Mary's father not go to Bethlehem for the census?
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.
Did Mary and Joseph live in Jerusalem?
Bethlehem was where Jesus was born. Mary and Joseph traveled there to take part in a nationwide census. Shortly after Jesus was born, the family traveled back home to Nazareth.
