Luke 2:1-7

International Standard Version

The Birth of Jesus^(A)

2 Now in those days an order was published by Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered. ² This was the first registration taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. ³ So all the people went to their hometowns to be registered.

⁴ Joseph, too, went up from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the City of David (called Bethlehem), because he was a descendant^[a] of the household and family of David. ⁵ He went there^[b] to be registered with Mary, who had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant.

⁶ While they were there, the time came for her to have her baby, ⁷ and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest quarters.