Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem for a registration that they have to sign for a population record. Mary, sitting sidesaddle, is pregnant and Joseph leads the donkey that she is sitting on. He is carrying a bag over one shoulder.
1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria.3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town.4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.