Luke 2:1-4

The Birth of Jesus

1 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^[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

3 And everyone went to their own town to register.

4 So 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.

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 22:17; Luke 3:1
• 2. S Matthew 24:14
• 3. Matthew 4:24; Acts 15:23,41; Acts 21:3; Galatians 1:21
• 4. S John 7:42

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "This census took place before"