Each to his own city (εκαστος εις την εαυτου πολιν). A number of papyri in Egypt have the heading enrolment by household (απογραφη…

All went to be taxed.—As a rule the practice in a Roman census was to register people in their place of residence; but th…

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was …

The Venerable Bede: The Son of God was about to be born in the flesh. Just as His birth from a virgin showed that the grace of …

Luke clearly intends to secure the historical and chronological moorings of Jesus’ birth (approximately 4 B. C.). Ironically, it is precisely this …

And all went to be taxed
Throughout Judea, Galilee, and Syria; men, women, and children;

The fullness of time had now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman, and made under the law. The circumstances of his bi…