Luke’s account of the birth of Christ has Joseph going to Judea for the enrollment required by the decree of Caesar Augustus (Luke 2:1, 4). The account of the shepherds in Judea makes more sense than having shepherds in Galilee, which was farmland rather than the hill country of Judea where sheepherding was the standard. John 7:42 recounts a story in which those challenging Jesus had difficulty understanding how He was Messiah since He lived in Galilee, and yet they knew from Micah 5:2 that the Messiah