Luke 2:1 - English Standard Version 2016

¹ In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ IN THOSE days it occurred that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole Roman empire should be registered.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled.

Common English Bible

¹ In those days Caesar Augustus declared that everyone throughout the empire should be enrolled in the tax lists.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, so that the whole world would be enrolled.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ AND it came to pass, that in those days there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that the whole world should be enrolled.

Luke 2:1 Cross References

Esther 10:1

King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.

Matthew 22:17

Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

Matthew 24:14

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Mark 14:9

And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”

Mark 16:15

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

Luke 2:3

And all went to be registered, each to his own town.

Luke 2:5

to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.

Luke 3:1

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Acts 11:28

And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).

Acts 25:11

If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

Acts 25:21

But when Paul had appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of the emperor, I ordered him to be held until I could send him to Caesar.”

Romans 1:8

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.

Philippians 4:22

All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar’s household.