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After Mary’s 40 days of “uncleanness,” Mary and Joseph travel from their house in Bethlehem to the Temple in Jerusalem to consecrate Jesus, and make the purification offering for Mary (Lk 2:22-28).
After Herod's death in 4 BC, they returned to Nazareth in Galilee, rather than Bethlehem, because Herod's son Archelaus was the ruler of Judaea. [89] Mary is involved in the only event in Jesus' adolescent life that is recorded in the New Testament.
- Jesus Is Circumcised
- Presented to God
- Back to Bethlehem
- Mass Murder
- Return to Bethlehem?
- A Long Journey
Jesus' birth, which occurs on or around the Feast of Trumpets (September 2 in 5 B.C.) fulfills the prophecy found in Micah 5:2. Joseph, on the eighth day after Mary gives birth, takes the family to Jerusalem so that the Lord can be circumcised according to the law of God (Luke 2:21).
Forty days after Jesus is born, fulfilling the purification requirement of Leviticus 12, Mary and Joseph travel to Jerusalem's temple to present him before God. The trip is only 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) long. His parents make an offering to the temple of two young birds. It is during their visit that a priest named Simeon prophesied about Jesus' mi...
In Bethlehem, Jesus' family is living in a home and not a stable (Matthew 2:11). The wise men (Magi) from the East, guided by a star (an angel), arrive to worship the King of Kings with Mary in attendance. After the wise men leave, Joseph is told (in a dream) to flee to Egypt (verse 13). He is informed of this because Herod the Great will soon issu...
Herod's cruel actions fulfill a prophecy regarding the slaughter of innocent children (Jeremiah 31:15). Their journey from Bethlehem to what is Egyptian-controlled territory (which was outside the jurisdiction of Herod) was at least 65 kilometers (40 miles). After Herod dies in early 4 B.C., Joseph has a dream where an angel tells him it is safe to...
However, as Mary and Joseph approach Judea, it is discovered that Herod Archelaus, the eldest surviving son of Herod the Great, is the new ruler of the area. Like his father, Archelaus rules with tyranny and cruelty. John Gills' Exposition of the Bible states that one time he sent his entire army into Jerusalem's temple, at Passover, in order to ki...
The travels of Mary and Joseph from Egyptian territory all the way north to Nazareth is a journey of more than 140 miles (225 kilometers, see Luke 2:39 - 40)! Jesus spends his childhood and young adult years living in Nazareth (which fulfills the prophecy stated in Matthew 2:23). After the death of his step-father sometime between his 12th and 30th...
May 10, 2018 · This means that at least following the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus, Mary lived with the apostles in Jerusalem.
Mary was ceremonially unclean after having given birth and Joseph was also ceremonially unclean for having touched Mary while she was bleeding, so the Jewish law required the purification of Mary, as well as Joseph.
Mary and Joseph, along with their baby Jesus, make the long journey back to Israel with plans to return and live in the Judean city of Bethlehem (Matthew 2:22). A Fearful Discovery. Shortly after entering Israel, likely through the city of Beersheeba, Joseph discovers that Herod Archelaus now rules Judea.
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She came to Jerusalem from Ephesus once again, eighteen months before her death, and I saw her again visiting the Holy Places with the Apostles at night, wrapped in a veil. She was inexpressibly sorrowful, constantly sighing, O my Son, my Son'.
