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The birth of Jesus Christ

While Mary was pregnant, she and Joseph had to go on a long journey, because the Roman emperor Augustus decided that everyone in the whole empire should be registered. Everyone had to go to the town of their ancestors. Joseph and Mary both belonged to the house and line of David, who was king of Israel a thousand years before Jesus was born.

So Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem, the town of King David. It is more than 100 kilometres from Nazareth to Bethlehem . In those days there were no trains and no cars, and the journey took several days. Nazareth lies in northern Israel, in Galilee, and Bethlehem in the south, in Judea . And on their way from Galilee to Judea they had to travel through the mountainous area of Samaria .

When Joseph and Mary finally arrived in Bethlehem , all the hotels were full. And then the time came for her to give birth. We read in the Gospel that she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger. This means that they had to stay in a stable. Tradition says that the stable was in a cave. In that area shepherds still use stables like that to gather their sheep.
Luke 2:1-7