ÒIn those
days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire
Roman worldÉ And everyone went to his own town to
register. 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. He
went there with Mary, who was
pledged to be married to him and was
expecting a child. While they were
there, the time came for the
baby to be bornÉÓ – Luke 2:1-6