On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 16:55:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/09/07 15:54, Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
> > It always struck me as odd that the gospels could not agree on whether
> > Josef and Maria had to go Bethlehem for a census or if they had been
^^^^^ ^^^^^
Interesting how I slipped back into childhood there without even
noticing...
> > living there already.
>
> Which canon Gospel is that in? Both Matthew and Luke say that the
> couple traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem.
Only Luke has the taxation/census story. Matthew states that Jesus was
born in Bethlehem without mentioning any preceding journey (Mt 2:1). He
has the family settling in Nazareth once they return from Egypt, but it
sounds like that is the first time that Joseph comes to that city (Mt
2:22-23).
The contradiction is not as clear as I remembered it, though.
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