Mary and Joseph have to go for the census in Joseph’s hometown, Bethlehem. There is no room for them there and the child is born in a stable. It’s fair to fit this all into the high anxiety zone.

Caesar’s census is not about demographic numbers ... and the burden of indebtedness. Joseph and Mary make their way from Nazareth to Bethlehem as the empire and its economy demand. They find long-lost ...

When Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem the local inn was full with people returning for the census. The innkeeper let them stay in the rock cave below his house which was used as a stable for ...

Meanwhile, a census forces every man and his family to return to his place of birth. Joseph and Mary set out on a long and arduous journey to Bethlehem. This story is based on the Biblical account ...

The Gospel of Luke starts with Joseph and a pregnant Mary in Galilee. They journey to Bethlehem in response to a census that the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus required for all the Jewish people.

Mary is visited by the angel Gabriel, who tells her she will bear the Son of God. Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem to take part in Herod's census, where Jesus is born.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem because Joseph and Mary had travelled there to take part in a census which the Roman rulers had ordered. When Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem the local inn was ...