Luke 2:3 So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
Can you imagine the uproar if everyone had to go back to their birthplace to get taxed and accounted for?
How many planes would be needed to ferry the people back and forth so they could all spend Christmas at the place of their birth?
I can’t imagine they were too pleased back when Jesus was born either; but they obeyed the rules of the kings.
Do we have that sort of respect for authority nowadays? Do we have that sort of respect for God?