This first registration took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.
In context
1In those days an edict went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole inhabited world should be registered. 2This first registration took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3Everyone went to be registered, each to his own town. 4So Joseph too went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, into Judea, to the town of David called Bethlehem, since he belonged to the house and family line of David,
