A decree of Caesar Augustus, ordering the taking of a census in all the provinces of the Roman Empire, brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, thus fulfilling the prophecy of Micah, spoken 750 years before: "And thou, Bethlehem Ephrata, art a little one among the thousands of Juda: out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be the ruler of his people"(Mikha 5:2). When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Herod the Great was a vassal of Rome and in 6 AD Palestine was incorporated in the imperial province of Syria.
A Jewish Syrian from Palestine in the Empire of Rome.
https://www.bethlehem-city.org/en/history-of-bethlehem
A Jewish Syrian from Palestine in the Empire of Rome.
Syria had a lot of cool trans shit going on too, made people mald