Luke 2:1 meaning and explanation
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
Luke 2:1, Berean Standard Bible
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Luke opens the story of Jesus' birth by anchoring it in the wider world of his day. Caesar Augustus, the Roman emperor, issues a decree for a census across the empire, and Luke names it as the first such registration under Quirinius, governor of Syria.
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