Luke 2:1

In those days Augustus Caesar issued an edict for a census of the whole inhabited world.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2This was the first census, When Quirinius was governor of Syria.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:17"Give us your advice, then. Is it allowable to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

Mark 14:9I tell you in solemn truth that wherever the gospel is preached throughout the whole world, there what she has done shall be told in remembrance of her."

Luke 3:1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene;

Acts 25:11"If I am a criminal and have done anything for which I ought to die, I do not object to die. But if none of their charges is true, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar."

Romans 1:8First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout 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 →

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