Luke 2:1
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered in a census.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
2This was the first census, and it took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
Cross References
Matthew 22:17Tell us then, what do yoʋ think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
Mark 14:9Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial to her.”
Luke 3:1In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
Acts 25:11If I am in the wrong and have done something that deserves death, I do not seek to escape death. But if none of the things these men accuse me of is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
Romans 1:8First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
Matthew Henry on Luke 2:1
In this chapter, we have an account of the birth and infancy of our Lord Jesus: having had notice of his conception, and of the birth and infancy of his forerunner, in the former chapter. The First-begotten is here brought into the world; let us go meet him with our hosannas, blessed is he that cometh. Here is, I. The place and other circumstances of his birth, which proved him to be the true Messiah, and such a one as we needed, but not such a one as the Jews expected, ver. 1-7 . II. The notifying of his birth to… Read the whole commentary →