What are some of the reasons Jesus' story as a young man is so absent in the Bible?

Question

It would give us an added insight into Him as many Christians (the open minded ones) would be curious about what his life was like. Was His young life like many others in His time? Like where did He go, what did He do. Did He do a lot of traveling on a ship with His uncle Joseph,. did He travel to Egypt, India, and elsewhere? Did He continue to work as a carpenter after His earthly father died? How did He feel about His two older sisters Lydia and Lysia who were adults when He was born? And other questions.

Answer 1

The Bible doesn't give us many details about Jesus' boyhood—although there isn't any reason to think He didn't run and play like other boys His age. The Bible simply says that as a boy "Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men" (Luke 2:52). Those words indicate that even as a young boy Jesus knew He was unique, and was set apart by God for a special mission.

The only glimpse the Bible gives us of Jesus' boyhood years confirms this. Mary and Joseph were devout people, and every year they journeyed to Jerusalem to celebrate one of the major religious feasts. Jesus always went with them—but once, when He was 12, He got separated from them, and they only found Him several days later.

Where was He? They found Him in the Temple, surrounded by religious teachers and scholars and "listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers" (Luke 2:46-47). Afterward He told Mary and Joseph, "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" (Luke 2:49). He already knew that God was His Father and He was God's Son, sent from heaven to save us from our sins.

The most important truth about Jesus, however, is this: He grew up and willingly went to the cross for us. And on the 3rd day He rose from the dead. He loves us that much! Have you responded to His love by giving your life to Him?

Answer 2

The Bible experts talk about the "eighteen silent years" of Jesus.
He was twelve teaching in the temple when his parents lost track of him and had to go looking. Next the Bible speaks of Jesus beginning his ministry at age thirty in Capurneum. Anything else is sheer speculation and guess. He lived in Egypt for some time so he had to have some Egyptian influence in His life but that's a guess about the influence. Lydia and Lysia being his siblings I believe is in error. James the elder was Jesus older brother. The Bible speaks often of him.

Answer 3

The Bible is completely silent on the time between when He was 12 and age 30 (when He began His ministry), probably more than anything because there is no reason to include it.

The narrative picks up when He is about 30 and starts His public ministry. This is the important information that God wants us to know about, not whether he enjoyed making a particular kind of bookcase while helping his dad in his carpentry business.

I don't know where you got the idea that He had sisters who were already adults by the time He was born, and what their names were, but that isn't a possibility if Mary was a virgin when Jesus was born. He did have sisters, but He was the oldest child in His family, not any sister.

The names of his sister(s) are not in Scripture, and so any such names aren't considered to be necessarily reliable information.

Answer 4

There are many who think that the profound works of Jesus were all divinely inspired.
Maybe even walking , talking and potty training also.

Evidence of his education turned up only about a half a century ago. Before that it was redacted from biblical works. Why? Those who have the courage to question so called authority realize that Jesus taught that salvation was an individual accomplishment, and not something that could only be achieved by prostrating oneself at the foot of a symbol of human cruelty and savagery.
It took an education for Jesus to so eloquently and profoundly give discourse as he did during his sermon on the Mount, or many of his other sermons.
What should be important to all is where and from whom did he learn.
The answers are out there, it would be of little value to relate them here. One has to do the footwork oneself in order for them to have any value.

Answer 5

The reason why not much is written about the early life of Jesus is because the REASON Jesus came to the earth was to fulfill a ministry in His life of a period of three and a half years and THAT is WHEN He started and the disciples began to write of the things that happened in their lives and His (during these three and a half years)

It's a prophetic time period and is the real reason of why He was on the earth.
When He died on the cross, the three and a half year ministry was "cut off"

Then there was to be another three and a half years for the nation of Israel at the end time...


What took place in those three and a half years is enough to study and receive and absorb for many many
years...and still never touch the tip of the wealth in those
Scriptures.

Answer 6

I'm thinking he was chasing girls and getting up to mischief like any other young boy. I'm sure we'd all like to think that he was sitting meditating on his own perfection, but there is nothing in the Bible to suggest that.

As we don't see much of Jesus doing anything connected to a real trade later on in life, one would also have to assume that he was quite lazy during his boyhood years as he obviously didn't pick up much of his father's trade or any other trade for that matter.

Sure, he was a clever boy - impressing all the sholars at the Temple in Jerusalem when he was twelve - but that is also the only instance we see him doing much at all...

If he was a very peculiar boy that did a lot of weird stuff, I'm sure that would have been mentioned (or perhaps we have some censorship there?)...

Answer 7

And what purpose would the extra knowledge do to help your faith and to believe in Him? His birth and early childhood were told as proof of prophecies being fulfilled and of course His adult ministry is obvious. I don't see as knowing more would help.

Also, you mention His two older sisters. There are no sisters mentioned in the Bible and if they were older then Mary would not be a virgin, therefore these sisters do not exist as far as I can tell.

Answer 8

Some reasons are that:
* Nobody knew he was special until he was an adult and decided to fullfill the prophecies of the messiah.
* It's a typical patter of religious icons (Buddha, Mohammed, etc)
* Most of his life was invented anyway for political purposes.

Answer 9

i can tell u about when he was a new born and he talked

019.027 At length she brought the (babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms). They said: "O Mary! truly an amazing thing hast thou brought!

019.028 "O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!"

019.029 But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?"

019.030 He said: "I am indeed a servant of God: He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet;

019.031 "And He hath made me blessed wheresoever I be, and hath enjoined on me Prayer and Charity as long as I live;

019.032 "(He) hath made me kind to my mother, and not overbearing or miserable;

019.033 "So peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life (again)"!

019.034 Such (was) Jesus the son of Mary: (it is) a statement of truth, about which they (vainly) dispute.

Answer 10

I think those years are absent because he was still on a learning curve. It was only when he began to teach, that his history was more remembered and written about.