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.
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.
Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem , as it was told to go to their respective hometowns for the census.
Caesar Agustus issued an order for everyone to go to their hometown and be taxed. It was also part of a census.
because there was a census that was being done and every man had to go to their own hometown.
Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to be counted in a census so they could be taxed.
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!
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.
Luke 2:1-7 tells the story of the Birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Bethlehem was known as the City of David because it was the hometown of King David, Joseph's ancestor. Because Caesar Augustus had demanded a census, all men had to take their families to register in their ancestral cities (this was simply how they organized the information). While they were registering in the census at Bethlehem, Jesus was born in the city of his ancestor David, whose reign as king Jesus would fulfill.
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register. 4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. Taken from Luke2:1-4(NIV)
But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world.So Joseph had to go to his home city, Bethlehem to register.
Oh, dude, Mary and Joseph had to pay taxes in Bethlehem because Caesar Augustus decided to have a census, you know, to count all the peeps in his empire. And of course, to pay taxes, you gotta be where the government can find ya, so off they went to Bethlehem. Just your typical bureaucratic inconvenience, am I right?