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Jan 2, 2015 · Lk. 2:1-5 Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem in Judaea, where Joseph’s family live (see 1 on Map 4). The journey takes four or five days as Nazareth is 65 miles / 105 km north of Jerusalem (in a straight line), while Bethlehem is a hilltop town situated on a ridge near the edge of the Judaean desert , 5 miles / 8km south of Jerusalem .
- The Holy Family Flee to Egypt
Matt. 2:13-18 Joseph is warned by an angel in a dream to...
- Shepherds Visit The Infant
Luke tells us that an angel of the Lord appeared to the...
- Jesus Grows Up
Lk. 2:40-41 As a child, Jesus grows in wisdom and in...
- Wise Men Visit Jerusalem
Matt. 2:1-6 Some months after Jesus is born, in 5 or 4BC, a...
- Jewish Religious Rituals
Lk. 2:22-24 Thirty-three days later (once Mary is considered...
- Jesus's Birth Announced
Lk. 1:26-38 The angel Gabriel appears to Mary at Nazareth in...
- The Birth of Jesus
Luke records that Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethlehem...
- Printable Version
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- The Holy Family Flee to Egypt
- 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...
Dec 18, 2021 · A 97-mile journey, which represented a real ordeal for the couple at a time and place when the roads were not paved—as they were in a good part of the rest of the Roman Empire—and when the only...
Jan 24, 2017 · Distance from Nazareth to Bethlehem: 80 miles. “So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee, to Bethlehem the town of David…” (Luke 2:4) Going “up” to Bethlehem is an...
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).
Dec 23, 2021 · From the Scriptures, we find that Joseph and Mary traveled 80 miles to Bethlehem which is fitting because they left the city of Nazareth and entered the city that literally means: “House of...
Dec 22, 2023 · How long would it have taken to travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem? People could perhaps travel about twenty miles a day. However, given Mary's late stage of pregnancy, that number would have been much less, perhaps around ten miles a day.
