Luke 2:1-7

Luke 2:1 ESV

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.

Luke 2:2 ESV

This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

Luke 2:3 ESV

And all went to be registered, each to his own town.

Luke 2:4 ESV

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,

Luke 2:5 ESV

to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.

Luke 2:6 ESV

And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth.

Luke 2:7 ESV

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.