The Birth of Jesus Christ

Now it happened that in those days a decree went out from Caesar[a] Augustus to register all the empire. (This first registration took place when[b] Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 2:1 Or “the emperor”
  2. Luke 2:2 Or perhaps “before”; here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was governor”)