What happened to Jesus when he was a boy???

Question

why doesnt anybody know about when jesus was a boy. that is the most important part of a persons life it is when they undergo socialization. So why dont people know. did he go from a baby to a man overnight??? cause thats impossible and i am sure it would hurt

you must actually know what socialization is to answer this question!!!!! if you dont you must get educated first then come back and answer.

Ok ill tell you what it is: socialization is the process we all undergo growning up. It judges how we turn out as individuals. it starts the second we are born, looking into our parents smiling faces we wonder what that is they are doing until finally we eventually link smiling to happyness. This process goes on every day of our lives. It determines everything about how you end up as and adult, and so on. Wheter christian, athiest, etc. phew

so i guess what i am saying is that it is important!

Answer 1

We know very little of Jesus's life as a child. Probably because it was not relevant. We do have a record of his going to town with his parents. They lost track of Jesus, but later found Him preaching to a group of people. When Mary told Jesus that he should have been helping his father(Joseph). Jesus responded "I am doing my fathers work."

Answer 2

As Christians we go by the Bible. The accounts of Jesus are in the four Gospels, and then in Acts Jesus returned after the resurrection to instruct the apostles to carry on his church.

Your question is good in the sense that we know extremely little about his childhood. His birth, parents, and little else are mentioned. Chapter 2 of Luke tells some about Jesus' as a youngster. Verse 40 mentions, "And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him." (NIV) Then another incident in the temple is described in which Jesus showed remarkable knowledge.

True there are gaps, but we are given enough information to deduce that he had a normal childhood, though he was gifted. The Bible tells us what we need to know, and due to his special creation we do not need knowledge about parts of his life we would need of an average person.

Answer 3

The Apostles knew Mary personally and probably knew a good deal about the childhood of Jesus. In fact there were a lot of people around who His disciples could have asked. And I believe some of the disciples might have known him also. John the baptist was the cousin of Jesus. When Jesus was twelve he was found teaching in the synagogue and asked his parent's,'Don't you know that I am about my Father's buisness'? The bible tells you what the Father's buisness is, so we have a clear revelation of what Jesus was like as a youth. We know many miraculous things happened when he was born and that angels appeared, and that he travelled to Egypt as an infant. The bible says he had brothers and sisters. I'm sure he played games with them,went to synagogue with them, ate meals with them,etc. But more importantly it is the fruit that we produce that is important. By observing the fruit of Jesus all around us today we can learn even more about his life. Godly character is love,peace,joy. goodness,kindness.gentleness,meekness.faith,self-control.

Answer 4

I understand that childhood can shape what we will be as adults, but I think Jesus was an exception. I'm not sure that Jesus of Nazareth is the same spirit as Christ. My guess is that Jesus was born again for one reason, to hand his physical being over to Christ. I'm not talking possession, I'm talking about one spirit stepping out of the way for another one to take over the body. It's possible that they came and went as children, but as adults only Chirst remained As reincarnation is such a long explanation, especially in this case, I think I will stop here.The childhood of Jesus simply is a moot point and has nothing to do with the Christ.
Blessed Be

Answer 5

God did not think this was important to supply the readers of the Holy Bible with a break-down of Jesus' life as a child, forward or He would of had the Holy Spirit inspire the writers of the New Covenant to do so. Jesus' wisdom was heard in the Temple at the age of 12 by the Jewish elders. Jesus undoubtedly, experienced verbal put-downs because of Mary being pregnant with Him while being non-married, which was a very big deal in Jewish society, especially back then. I wonder how many times He was called a "b _ _ _ard" by His peers ?
God, as the Christ, had / has a very exciting "life" and as with anything where God chooses to become involved, it keeps growing and eventually becomes better and better.

Answer 6

Do you care about his adult life? Its strange people try to ignore his adult life by saying, "What happened in his youth?". Christopher Columbus for example. We know very little of his youth. We would like to. But we don't. But we can guess he gained some navigational experience. In the same way with Jesus we can guess he studied the Jewish writings and probably took up his father's trade. And "carpenter" is a bit of a mistranslation, Joseph was more like an architect then a table and chair maker.

Answer 7

there is the "Infant Gospel of Thomas', which does cover the young life of 'Jesus'. Though it was rejected at the council that put the bible together.

363CE Council of Laodicea names 26 New Testament books as "inspired word of God"; Book of Revelation is excluded. It took another 25yrs for Revelations to OFFICIALLY be added.

At the time of the 4th century, there were something like 28 different gospels and over 2000 different 'testaments of faith' being used by the various early 'christian or jewish/christian' groups. The bible was put together as a collection that put forth the ORTHODOX views that were being used by the Pauline sect of Christianity.

In some of the Essne and Gnostic text (the dead sea scrolls), it talks of the life of 'Jesus'. 'Mary Magdolin' was also mentioned as his wife or disciple, the catholic changed her into a prostitue some time in the 5th century. They had to explain why a woman was with THEIR opinion of 'Jesus'.

It is a BIG OL' CAN OF WORMS though. Be sure you REALLY want to KNOW before you open it. The Creation and Evolution of Christianity is an INTERESTING topic though it does contradict much of the Christian Propaganda put out by the churches.

Answer 8

The only thing we really know about the childhood of Jesus is that he was raised in Egypt.

Mat 2:11 And they came into the house and saw the young child with Mary his mother; and they fell down and worshipped him; and opening their treasures they offered unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Mat 2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Mat 2:13 Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I tell thee: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Mat 2:14 And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt;
Mat 2:15 and was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt did I call my son.

Mat 2:19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
Mat 2:20 Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead that sought the young child's life.
Mat 2:21 And he arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

One reason that the Bible doesn't say much about Jesus younger years is that according to Hebrew tradition of that time, a man could not start his ministry as a priest or prophet until he was at least 30 years old. Therefore, his life prior to30 years of age was of little consequence.

Answer 9

There is a passage in Matthew that says "and Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and in favor with all men"
We also have the story of him in the temple at 12 years old but then nothing until he was 30 years old. We only really have birth, one story at 12, and 3 years o ministry recorded. Quite a legacy in 3 years eh?

Answer 10

He was learning (and probably teaching, as well) in the temple, and he was learning his earthly father's trade, and he was playing with his brothers and friends, and he was going to synogogue, probably doing a little fishing on the Sabbath with his dad, blah blah blah, not very important anyway.