1. At that time the Emperor Augustus ordered a census of the Roman Empire.
2. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.
3. All the people went to register in the cities where their ancestors had lived.
4. So Joseph went from Nazareth, a city in Galilee, to a Judean city called Bethlehem. Joseph, a descendant of King David, went to Bethlehem because David had been born there.
5. Joseph went there to register with Mary. She had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant.