<p>2:5 <i>To enroll himself with Mary, who was engaged to him, being great with child</i>- It could be that this is recorded as a fulfilment of how Is. 53:12 had predicted that Jesus would be &ldquo;numbered with the transgressors&rdquo;. He was numbered amongst humanity, and was born where both Mary and Joseph were, in Bethlehem. &quot;With Mary&quot; could suggest that she too had been born there; otherwise we are left to assume that only the males had to register, and so Mary tagged along with him. If indeed Mary had also been born in Bethlehem, as is here implied, then this would reinforce the idea that the Lord was truly David's seed, and should have been the legitimate king of Israel by descent.</p>