account of each at his own place of extraction. Mary being apparently herself sprung from the lineage of David (see ch. 1:32), might on this account go to Bethlehem, being, as some suppose, an inheritress; but this does not seem to be the Evangelist’s meaning, but that, after the Roman manner, she accompanied her husband. No stress must be laid on ἐμνηστ., as if she were only the betrothed wife of Joseph at this time;—she had been taken to his house before this: the history in our text happening