Quirinius

{}Quirinius was governor twice. Even during the last years of Herod. So, Augustus probably issued the census then. Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem because they were both of royal lineage, not to take the Census. Mary may not have known exactly what was happening, as she was a woman, and recounted the story to Luke. But the fact is both those events happened near one another, and Mary and Joseph accounted their Census, and registered that they were from Nazareth.

{}The census was in 5BC. Not 6AD. When Quirinius was Governor. I was just reading an article on that, actually. Not the census, but that Quirinius was governor. There’s a lot of gaps in history, but he was governor in 5BC, when Herod the Great would still be alive.

I mean, from what I’m seeing, Quirinius was governor of Anatolia (Galatia and Cicilia), which isn’t that much different to the colloquial mind of even a doctor of that day with Syria. The language would be indistinguishable from Syrian, as that’s the language group being used there. They are so close together. I don’t think he’s talking about the census from 6AD but rather a census taken in 5BC, when Quirinius was governor of those regions, as Herod the Great has to be alive, too. In other words, I don’t think he’s using Josephus as his source, but rather Mary and Joseph.

It was the census in 2BC. Because Quirinius is governor of Cilicia and Galatia (Syria) and Augustus made a census at that time. Because Augustus asked the Census take place for the entire world. And in 8BC he issued that, and the province of Judea wouldn’t issue that decree until 2BC, when Quirinius was governor of Syria (Galatia and Cilicia).

[Augustus] made a census in 8BC that matriculated Judea in 2BC. The year Christ was born. Christ was 33 when He died, He died in 31AD according to Guang Wu and Phlegon of Trelles. Herod the Great we have a discrepancy of 2 years, that he died in 4BC. Some sources say 1BC. Which, Roman Dating isn’t exact. So the timeline is perfect, actually.