How come the bible jumps from Jesus being a kid to when he was 33?

Answer 1

Who would like to hear the boring part of his life. It would just makes him seems more mortal. After all he is god's son, so we can't have story of him getting his first hard-on and so on right? In fact if we spice it up a bit and abit of promo here and there, we might even be able to promote him to godhood. Wait a minute......he is already god's son right?

Answer 2

Luk 2:42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.

Twelve is not a kid in my book. Almost a teenager.

Jesus died at 33. He taught for 3 years.

Jesus is God as man. He had to experience being a person before saving us. It is God's plan. There is no need to go into the detail of that. This is the reason for the jump.

Answer 3

Because no one knows where he was or what he was doing during those years. Since many of his teachings mirror the OLDER teachings of Buddah, there are many who believe he may have journeyed to the East and studied there. Long trip any way you look at it,but its possible, and indeed, probable. All you have to do is look at the similarities between his teachings and Buddhist and even Hindu teachings. And what's to have stopped him from making such a trip? By the age of 15 or so, you were considered a man and many people got married that young - but then you had to, after all the life expectancy was about 35-40....so if he wanted to spend his years learning elsewhere, why not?

Answer 4

in the centuries after the death of Jesus, when the books of the Bible were being written, there was not an accepted canon of what was officially sanctioned by the church and what was not. once upon a time there actually were quite a few books devoted to the life of young JC, and they were called Infancy Gospels. They were of varying degrees of popularity but a few of them were quite well known and accepted by early Christians.
There have not been any Infancy Gospels in the bible for around 800 years, as they were eventually all deemed apocryphal by the church (meaning they are holy writings from biblical times but the church does not accept them as the divine word of God).
my personal favorite of the ones I have read is called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. In it, Jesus, age 12, makes some birds out of clay on a Sunday and then brings them to life and they fly away. Then he is playing in some mud by the river and some kids come and wreck his sandcastles so Jesus blinds them. Then he gets in a footrace with another kid and loses, so he withers the kid. After this misbehaving the townsfolk are understandably peeved at Jesus and they round up a posse to run him and Joseph out of town. So Jesus blinds them and as they're wandering around unable to see a bunch of them get pretty seriously injured. That's about it.
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas was wildly popular for several centuries. Probably because it was exciting and it did address the question of what it meant to be in an immature human form but with divine powers. When it was ejected from the official Bible it was not because people thought it was ridiculous or didn't like the message, but it was because Jesus was portrayed as having made something on a Sunday (the clay birds), and the church honchos decided that was an heretical idea.
Many of these Infancy Gospels contradict each other and some of them are fairly obviously just adaptations where folk heroes and pagan stories are just dressed up as New Testament figures. Nonetheless there is quite a bit out there on the young life of the son of God. But there are some holes in our knowledge of what JC did get up to as a young man; many people think he spent some years traveling; maybe he went and hung out in India for a few years or something like that, because eventually when he came back and started up with the preaching he did have a better education than would have been available to him at that time in Palestine, and he knew about things that the pharisees did not really think about very much. Since they were the best educated people in the region it does seem likely that JC did get out and hit the road as a young man.

Answer 5

Because the bible is incomplete. You must look at the missing texts for a more complete picture of the life of Jesus.

Here is one amongst many of the gospels that was part of the original bible and was removed by the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D.

http://www.barnabas.net/

This gospel is widely accepted in the Islamic world because of the mention of the arrival of the Holy Prophet Muhammad at one point.

God Bless!

Answer 6

It's because their was no need to mention his life as a Carpenter. The people that say it is because the bible is incomplete aren't thinking things through. What is the reason for telling people about how he first learned how to carve wood or hammer a peg. Besides, why would any of these other "gospels" be written when he was young or about his youth. Come on people use ur heads.

Answer 7

Those were the party years! He was hitchin' a ride all over the world and just being an adventurous young deity. At 33 the mead and wine were catching up to him finally and it was time for him to settle down and get to work, so he started preaching about the ills of being an adventurous young deity and the sin of drinking too much mead and wine.

Answer 8

This question reminds me of an episode of "The Family Guy" in which Jesus snaps at Joseph and says something like "You're not my real dad!" Then proceeds to contact his real dad who is in a new relationship and reluctant to let Jesus crash at his place.

Maybe that's why.

Answer 9

thats the problem with the catholic. there were 200 scriptures in which the catholic censored the 196 and adapted only 4. so i guess somewhere in the 196 is the stories of jesus reaching puberty , having his frist hard on, getting married( hahahaha) and the finally, receive his call by god.

Answer 10

Do what I'm going to do.. when I get to heaven, I will find Jesus and ask all my unanswered questions.
I don't mean to make light of your question.. but who here, on earth, can truly give you the correct answer.. we, as humans, can only assume.. making an a** out of you and me.