secundum Matthæum 2:4

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Ascendit autem et Joseph a Galilæa de civitate Nazareth in Judæam, in civitatem David, quæ vocatur Bethlehem: eo quod esset de domo et familia David,

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et cum non possent offerre eum illi pr� turba, nudaverunt tectum ubi erat : et patefacientes submiserunt grabatum in quo paralyticus jacebat.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Ascendit autem et Ioseph a Galilaea de civitate Nazareth in Iudaeam in civitatem David, quae vocatur Bethlehem, eo quod esset de domo et familia David,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joseph: Luke 1:26, Luke 1:27, Luke 3:23

of the city: Luke 4:16, Matthew 2:23, John 1:46

unto: Genesis 35:19, Genesis 48:7, Ruth 1:19, Ruth 2:4, Ruth 4:11, Ruth 4:17, Ruth 4:21, Ruth 4:22, 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 16:4, 1 Samuel 17:12, 1 Samuel 17:58, 1 Samuel 20:6, Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:1-6, John 7:42

he was: Luke 1:27, Luke 3:23-31, Matthew 1:1-17

Reciprocal: Genesis 23:10 - his 1 Kings 11:39 - not for ever Matthew 1:16 - Joseph Matthew 1:20 - Joseph Luke 2:11 - in Luke 2:39 - they returned John 1:45 - Jesus John 7:28 - Ye both Romans 1:3 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joseph also went up from Galilee,.... Where he now lived, and worked at the trade of a carpenter; having for some reasons, and by one providence or another, removed hither from his native place:

out of the city of Nazareth; which was in Galilee, where he and Mary lived; and where he had espoused her, and she had conceived of the Holy Ghost:

into Judea; which lay higher than Galilee, and therefore he is said to go up to it:

unto the city of David; not what was built by him, but where he was born and lived; see 1 Samuel 17:12.

which is called Bethlehem: the place where, according to Micah 5:2 the Messiah was to be born, and was born; and which signifies "the house of bread": a very fit place for Christ, the bread which came down from heaven, and gives life to the world, to appear first in. This place was, as a Jewish chronologer says g, a "parsa" and half, or six miles from Jerusalem; though another of their writers, an historian and traveller h, says, it was two "parsas", or eight miles; but Justin Martyr i says, it was but thirty five furlongs distant from it, which is not five miles; hither Joseph came from Galilee,

because he was of the house and lineage of David; he was of his family, and lineally descended from him, though he was so poor and mean; and this is the reason of his coming to Bethlehem, David's city.

g Ganz. Tzemach David, par. 2. fol. 14. 2. h R. Benjamin Itin. p. 47. i Apolog. 2. p. 75.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The city of David - Bethlehem, called the city of David because it was the place of his birth. See the notes at Matthew 2:1.

Because he was of the house - Of the family.

And lineage - The “lineage” denotes that he was descended from David as his father or ancestor. In taking a Jewish census, families were kept distinct; hence, all went to the “place” where their family had resided. Joseph was of the “family” of David, and hence he went up to the city of David. It is not improbable that he might also have had a small paternal estate in Bethlehem that rendered his presence there more desirable.