And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
AD 339
It was the forty second year of the reign of Augustus and twentyeight years after the oppression of Egypt and the death of Antony and Cleopatra when Jesus was born in Bethlehem according to the prophecies concerning him. Flavius Josephus mentions this census in the time of Quirinius, adding another account about the sect of Galileans that arose at about the same time. Luke, among our writers, mentions this sect in Acts, saying, “After him Judas the Galilean arose in the days of the census and drew some people after him. He also perished, and all who followed him were scattered.”
