What did the shepherds and magi do for the next 30 years?

[DL82]

This isn’t that serious a question I guess, but I would be interested to hear if there are any traditions or stories of what happened to the shepherds and magi while Christ was growing up and preparing for His public ministry.

I guess the Magi were probably used to bizarre supernatural happenings in their way of life, and may well have gone back to stargazing, missing the full significance of the event because they lacked an understanding of the Jewish scriptures.

For the shepherds though - how could they have something like that happen in their lives and then go back to tending sheep knowing that the saviour of the world was growing up only a day’s walk from where they lived?

I wonder if our Lady had to request that people leave her Son alone until He was old enough to take on His public ministry?

Just one of those odd things you can’t help wondering about.

 

[Teeliumtrozzle]

Ive often wondered about that.The Bible doesn’t record it, and there is no real Canonical evidence we can use to learn about it.There was a book called ‘the Gospel of James’ which had stories about Jesus’s childhood, but that turned out to be heresy.Indeed, the Gospels are only summaries.Jesus did many, many things which were not recorded in them, and we’ll probably never know.The very last verse of John (John 21:25) states:‘Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.’