Childhood of Jesus (Stapled Booklet)

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Jeffrey D. Johnson. Childhood of Jesus (Stapled Booklet)

Childhood of Jesus

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Childhood of Jesus

Luke 2:40–52 Family History

Homework for Jesus

Psalm 69

Why?

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Jeffrey D. Johnson

Not much is recorded for us in the New Testament about the life of Jesus between his birth and the scene where he is in the Temple talking with the scholars, nor is there much written about his life between his time in the Temple and the beginning of his ministry at the age of 30. What was he doing during those “silent years?”

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Some believe that Jesus was not educated, due to a few verses such as “‘Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?’ And they were all amazed and marveled, saying, ‘ . . . Are not all these which speak Galileans?’ And the [religious] Jews marveled, saying, ‘How does this man know letters, having never studied?’” (John 1:46; Acts 2:7; John 7:15). These statements reflected a tension and intolerance between Judea and Galilee. Those in Judea saw themselves as being more sophisticated than their Galilean counterparts. They saw the Galileans as being backward and ignorant. When a Judean heard a Galilean speak, they heard a dolt’s voice.

The truth of the matter, according to Shmuel Safrai, Hebrew University Professor of Jewish History of the Mishnaic and Talmudic Periods, stated, “Not only do the number of first-century Galilean sages exceed the number of Judean sages, but the moral and ethical quality of their teaching is still considered more highly than that of their Judean counterparts” (Bivin 1993).

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