because there was a census that was being done and every man had to go to their own hometown.
Joseph and Mary were traveling as a decree had gone out by Augustus that all must register in their own town. So Joseph was traveling with Mary to Bethlehem.
Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem , as it was told to go to their respective hometowns for the census.
Joseph's ancestral home was Bethlehem. However, at the time he took Mary as his wife he was living in Nazareth.
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She traveled there with her husband Joseph, whose family was from Bethlehem.
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Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem for the census because it was a requirement by the government for all residents to return to their ancestral hometowns to be counted.
Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem to be counted in a census so they could be taxed.
Mary rode on a donkey, and I assume, Joseph walked at the side.
We have no reliable records of where Mary and Joseph were born, but can reasonably assume that they were probably born in the town where they continued to live in later life. This was either Bethlehem or Nazareth. According to the Gospel According to St Matthew, the home town of Mary and Joseph appears to have been Bethlehem, near Jerusalem in Judea. But, Luke's Gospel says that their home town was Nazareth in Galilee.