 But really, his father is Almighty God, and he is God the Son. We know this. And so that's kind of in the background here. Mary maybe doesn't want to deal with all of this, and she wants to give birth. She wants to be with Joseph, and that's why she accompanies him as they go to Bethlehem to take part in the census. And so Jesus is, of course, born in Bethlehem, is laid in a manger because of the meager accommodations that the Holy Family had to partake in