This conclusion is corroborated by another detail in Luke’s Gospel account: “In those days a decree went forth from Caesar Augustus for all the inhabited earth to be registered; (this first registration took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria;) and all people went traveling to be registered, each one to his own city. ” ​ — Luke 2: 1 - 3.
પણ આ તારીખ કઈ રીતે આવી? ઇતિહાસકારો માને છે કે પચીસમી ડિસેમ્બરે રોમન લોકોનો એક તહેવાર હતો.