The Birth of Jesus

2 In those days Caesar Augustus^(A) issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.^(B)

² (This was the first census that took place while^[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.)^(A)

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^(A) the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.

⁵ He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him^(A) and was expecting a child.

⁶ While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born,