1 About that time Emperor Augustus gave orders for the names of all the people to be listed in record books.2.1 names … listed in record books: This was done so that everyone could be made to pay taxes to the Emperor.2 These first records were made when Quiriniuswas governor of Syria.2.2 Quirinius was governor of Syria: It is known that Quirinius made a record of the people in a.d. 6 or 7. But the exact date of the record taking that Luke mentions is not known.
3 Everyone had to go to their own hometown to be listed. 4 So Josephhad to leave Nazarethin Galileeand go to Bethlehemin Judea. Long ago Bethlehemhad been King David’s hometown, and Josephwent there because he was from David’s family.
5 Marywas engaged to Joseph and traveled with him to Bethlehem. She was soon going to have a baby, 6 and while they were there, 7 she gave birth to her first-born2.7 first-born: The Jewish people said that the first-born son in each of their families belonged to the Lord.son. She dressed him in baby clothes2.7 dressed him in baby clothes: The Greek text has "wrapped him in wide strips of cloth," which was how young babies were dressed.and laid him on a bed of hay, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Lugar Bíblico
Região / Território
Syria
Hoje: Damascus
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Syria is the region throughout which news about Jesus spread, and people brought to him the sick, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them (Matthew 4:24).
Joseph, a descendant of David and carpenter of Nazareth, was the husband of Mary and raised Jesus; warned in a dream, he fled with them to Egypt (Matthew 1:24).
Nazareth is the town in Galilee where Jesus had been brought up and where, on the Sabbath day, he went into the synagogue and stood up to read (Luke 4:16).
Galilee is the land of Nazareth and Cana, from where Jesus came to be baptized by John in the Jordan and from where crowds and women followed him (Mark 1:9).
Bethlehem is the town in Judah from which the ruler who would shepherd Israel would come, and where David tended his father’s sheep; there Herod gave orders to kill the boys two years old and under (Matthew 2:16).
Judea is the land where Bethlehem is located, the town where Jesus was born during the time of King Herod. Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and there the Jews sought to kill Jesus (Matthew 2:1).
Bethlehem is the town in Judah from which the ruler who would shepherd Israel would come, and where David tended his father’s sheep; there Herod gave orders to kill the boys two years old and under (Matthew 2:16).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Joseph, a descendant of David and carpenter of Nazareth, was the husband of Mary and raised Jesus; warned in a dream, he fled with them to Egypt (Matthew 1:24).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Mary, a virgin of Nazareth betrothed to Joseph, was the mother of Jesus, whom she conceived by the Holy Spirit, and stood by her son’s cross (Luke 1:27).