Where did Jesus do from 12 years old until He showed Him self the first time (He was Baptized)

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I always wonder about what Jesus do from 12 years old until He showed Himself the first time. I mean in the scripture, there’s nothing talk about it. The last is when His parents looked for Him and He was in the temple. Then, there’s nothing until He was baptized.
Can anyone explain about it??
 
Hi,
I always wonder about what Jesus do from 12 years old until He showed Himself the first time. I mean in the scripture, there’s nothing talk about it. The last is when His parents looked for Him and He was in the temple. Then, there’s nothing until He was baptized.
Can anyone explain about it??
Jesus began His public ministry at age 30. The majority of His life is private. His domestic life with His family is their private business, kept for them alone. We know what we know about Him that He chooses to reveal. The rest is not our business, but there are always people who are curious about these kinds of things.
 
Jesus began His public ministry at age 30. The majority of His life is private. His domestic life with His family is their private business, kept for them alone. We know what we know about Him that He chooses to reveal. The rest is not our business, but there are always people who are curious about these kinds of things.
Well, I think the curiousity is a human nature
 
The life of the Young Jesus, its contents not disclosed by any canonical work, is actually referred to as the ‘Secret Life of Jesus at Nazareth.’

It is just that: a secret. The intimate familial bonds that the Divine Family must have formed in this period is something to contemplate and to meditate on, to be sure… but not something we will ever have any certainty about.

In the so-called* Infancy Gospel of Thomas*, the Young Jesus is a trouble-making god-child who uses his powers to demand his way. He gets angry with boys and curses them, causing them to wither, and pushes a friend off a roof and only reluctantly brings him to life once more, and refuses to be taught–instead arrogantly instructing his teachers. It finally resumes at Luke’s account of the young Jesus in the Temple with the teachers around its eighteenth chapter, but by then it’s plain to see such a person may be fine for the latest take on the Greek “god-child” mythos… but not compatible with the loving, self-sacrificial Christ we worship. You can look into it, though. I would rather recommend The Protoevangelion of James, which (to my knowledge, as I only know tid-bits) is far more orthodox and contains many of the traditions about Mary and St. Joseph that the Church still clings to.

Either way, yes, it’s good to be curious. Know that your question has no singular answer. Its solution begins when we ponder in meditative prayer what we DO know of the life of Christ and begin to fathom from there just what the Holy Family’s interactions may have been like. In the end, it’s all speculation, but when done through the lenses of the Church’s teaching and the narrative of the Gospels, it may lead to a deeping of faith and an increased sense of intimacy with the God who so humbled himself as to become man–but first a boy.

Peace
 
Hi,
I always wonder about what Jesus do from 12 years old until He showed Himself the first time. I mean in the scripture, there’s nothing talk about it. The last is when His parents looked for Him and He was in the temple. Then, there’s nothing until He was baptized.
Can anyone explain about it??
I recently saw an excellent documentary by a Protestant who was studying the Coptic Christians. He went to Egypt, and found a number of stories about Jesus while He was there. I was amazed!

I wonder too, about the “lost years”. I see in the wedding at Cana that Jesus had a very special relationship with Mary. I wonder how many miracles He worked for her? How was it that she was so confident that, if she told the servants “do whatever He tells you”, that miracles would happen? How is it that He allowed her to determine that His time had come? They both knew that, as soon as he worked a public miracle, it was a straight road to the cross…

Yet, He let her relinquish Him first, before He committed Himself.
 
I guess it’s just like us pondering what Jesus wrote on the ground ( twice ) that made the Pharisees walk away and not stone the woman caught in adultery. We will have to have an obedience to the faith and persevere until the end, then we can ask Him, if that would even be of importance anymore. St. John stated that everything written had salvific meaning and that everything Jesus did could not be written down because the world could not contain
such a book ( my paraphrase ) Jn 20:30f, 21:24f .

May God Bless, Static ( 1 Tim 1:15 )
 
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