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Augustus

A person of the New Testament era, first named at Luke 2:1.

Lived: the New Testament

What we know — and how we know it

Bible — stated in scripture (with verse) · 1 Archaeology — physical evidence · 1

Life, role & deeds

BibleThe emperor whose decree that 'all the world should be registered' brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem.

Luke 2:1

↳ Bethlehem

Till Niermann — Public domain (via Wikimedia Commons) ArchaeologyCaesar Augustus is among the best-documented figures of antiquity — his own Res Gestae, and countless coins, statues and inscriptions, survive.

Res Gestae Divi Augusti, preserved principally in the Monumentum Ancyranum (Temple of Rome and Augustus, Ankara); ed. P. A. Brunt & J. M. Moore (Oxford University Press, 1967); with imperial coinage and the Prima Porta statue (Vatican Museums)

Where in scripture

Luke Acts

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
Luke 2:1

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke 3:1

But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar.”
Acts 25:21

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,
Acts 25:25

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
Acts 27:1

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.

Luke 2:1 Luke 3:1 Acts 25:21 Acts 25:25 Acts 27:1

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