{Jesus friend of children}, stories for young readers _THE MIRACLE OF BETHLEHEM~Every road in palestine was crowded. Not in a long while had there been so much traffic.families living in the south were moving north,and others living in the north were going south. Clouds of dust rose from the rough dirt roads as people in oxcarts, on horseback, on donkeyback, and on foot went by on their various ways. The reason for all the disturbance was that there had gone out a decree from caesar Augustus "that all the world should be taxed." "Enrolled" is the word in the margin of luke 2:1. The emperor of rome wanted money, and he wanted also to find out how many people there were in his empire. So everyone had to return to his home town to be taxed and counted. If you belonged to jerusalem and were living in jerich,you had to go back to jerusalem. If you had been born,say,in Capernaum, and were living in joppa, you had to take the long, dusty trip back to Capernaum, or perhaps get into trouble with the roman soldiers, who were everywhere
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