TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
The Passover is a national call for Israelites to come to Jerusalem to offering sacrifices to God. Bethlehem was the place where they brought and basically held all the lambs that were going to be offered as a sacrifice. It was the custom that still was being exercised as Mary, Joseph, Jesus and the caravan that they went with went just 20 years before.
Therefore, 100,000 is a conservative estimate.
Your estimator would be correct if there was no Passover.
I think it's quite funny how you apparantly think that whoever did these studies, isn't aware of passover rituals and festivities.