It could be summer , as the shepherds were keeping watch over the sheep in the open. It is doubtful it is December , as it is to cold to sit out in the open.
Mary and Joseph had touse the straw on floor of the stable as a crib.
We do not know where Joseph was born. His ancestral home town was Bethlehem but he was probably not born there. Perhaps he was born in Nazareth where he was living at the time he tool Mary as his wife.
Herod the Great wanted to kill Jesus. When Joseph, Mary and Jesus fled to Egypt, Herod had no authority there. Even if he could have sent men into Egypt to kill Jesus, they probably could not have found the family.
The Bible does not mention the name of the innkeeper in Bethlehem who turned Mary and Joseph away. The story of the innkeeper turning them away is a popular tradition in Christian culture surrounding the birth of Jesus.
At the time of Luke's journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, Mary and Joseph were only bethrothed, and Mary was still a virgin. We can assume that they were both in their teens, with Mary probably in her early teens. Their parents would likely still have been alive and less than forty years old. If there really was a census during the reign of King Herod, something most scholars dipute strongly, then Joseph's parents would have been expected to go Bethlehem as well. Tradition tends to support the notion that Mary was also descended from King David, although the Bible is silent on this, in which case we could also expect her parents to travel to Bethlehem as well. However, for some reason, Luke's Gospel makes no mention of the extended family travelling together to Bethlehem.
Mary traveled to Bethlehem by riding on a donkey with Joseph.
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
Bethlehem is located at 32 degrees north and 35 degrees east. This would make it above the equator in December, so it was winter.
She traveled there with her husband Joseph, whose family was from Bethlehem.
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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 Winter
The biblical figure who famously rode into Bethlehem on a donkey, according to the story of Mary and Joseph's journey, is Joseph.