Augustus was leader of the Roman Empire at the time of Jesus’birth (in either 6 BCE or 7 CE, depending on which of Matthew orLuke got it right. If it was the latter, Augustus ordered a censusof the population after he sacked the local ruler Herod II andturned Judea into a Roman province and ordered a census of thepopulation, which brought Joseph and Mary to Nazareth where he wasborn. Augustus would have known nothing about an insignificantcarpenter. Jesus’ activity as a would-be-king/or poor itinerantpreacher/or miracle worker (take your pick) occurred during thereign of Tiberius when Pontius Pilate was his governor ofJudea.

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