where is it noted in the bible of the first 17 yrs. of Jesus's life, & if it is'nt did he travel to the East ?
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There's a story of how his family went up to the Temple\nThe Boy Jesus at the Temple ...\n 41Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. 42When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom. 43After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. 44Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. 45When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. 46After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you." \n 49"Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" 50But they did not understand what he was saying to them. \n\n 51Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.\n\nIt is understood that He underwent His Bar Mitzvah at this time, also.
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Is. 43:25-I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for My own sake, and will not remember thy sins.\nIs.44:22- I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgression,and, as a cloud, thy sins, return to Me; for I have redeemed you.\nPsalms 103:12- as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
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scriptureman says:\n\n2Co 12:2  I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such a one caught up to the third heaven.
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Jesus was talking about His ministry while here on earth! The messiah was promised to the people of Israel and they alone were expecting Him. \nLater on Jesus told His disciples(who were all Jews by the way) to go into ALL the earth and preach the Gospel to ALL Nations. \n\nMatthew 28, 18-20
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Easter celebrates the raising of Jesus from the dead, this is the actual point at which the Christian Church began as Jesus appeared to his disciples:\n\nMatthew chapter 28 (TEV)\n\n16 The eleven disciples went to the hill in Galilee where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him, even though some of them doubted. 18 Jesus drew near and said to them, "I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, 20 and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age."\n\nSo as undoubtedly important as Christmas is marking the birth of our Lord, Easter is thefoundation of the Church, and our promise of everlasting life in Heaven.
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Mark has only 16 chapters.\n\nMatthew 21:17 And leaving them behind he went outside the city to Beth′a·ny and passed the night there. (NWT)\n\nNew World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was translated from the original scrolls,Greek, Arabaic, and Hebrew.\n\nhttp://watchtower.org
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I have no clue.  I don't read the gospel.  It never was his gospel, anyway.   Where is this Gospel of Jesus?
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There is no ( or at the very least, precious little) evidence of a person called Jesus outside of the bible.  Xians will say Josephus mentioned him, but in fact, the only translation we have of Josephus was done by a christian writer in the 4th century...we don't have it in the original Latin.  And what is mentioned is very weak and open to interpretation and very likely was subject to interpolation.\n\nThe Romans were meticulous record keepers.  If Jesus existed, and had fostered the kind of revolution that would get their attention by threatening Roman rule, performing miracles, there would be copious writings about him from the Romans, and other sources.\n\nPaul the Apostle is agreeably the earliest christian writer, and he wrote probably a couple decades after the putative events.  Yet Paul makes no reference to a recently living Christ...and if you read his works separate from the rest of the NT, he seems to be writing of a supernatural creature who fought a battle, died and rose again in a spiritual realm, eons ago.  Paul went to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and yet he makes no mention of a pilgramage to Golgotha, or the tomb or any sites that would be shrines to a real person recently living, crucified and risen again ascending into heaven. Paul is bizarrely disinterested in anything relating to a real physical Jesus.\n\nAll other accounts, were written much later.  The earliest Gospel of Mark (by the way, it wasn't written by anybody called Mark, it is anonymous) couldn't have been written any earlier than 40-50 years after the events.  The Gospels all contradict each other as to Jesus life, miracles and death.  I recommend any of Randall Helms books on the New Testament and Gospels for a detailed overview of the problems.\n\nIt really is quite interesting if you are prepared to have an open mind about it.  Jesus, if he existed, was at best a wandering prophet/holyman/philospher.  We have lots of legendary heroes with stories about them, like King Arthur, William Tell...but we know they never actually existed.  I think it more likely he never actually existed, and was created as a "founding father" in the heroic tradition by the early church.
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The Bible focuses on spiritual matters, not the physical world.  That's why it doesn't mention so many things that would be of interest (for example, the trade routes known at the various tmes the Books were written; population figures; manner of dress, etc.).
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Here is the information that I have found on this\n\nIn which year was Jesus born?\nHistory records that Herod the Great died (Mt. 2:19) in 4 BC, so, if Jesus was born within Herod’s reign, as Matthew states (Mt. 2:1), then He must have been born before 4 BC.\n\nThe Star of Bethlehem (Beit Lechem in Hebrew) (Mt. 2:2) may have been a comet, or a planetary conjunction between Venus and Jupiter on March 11th in 5 BC, or another conjunction between Venus and the crescent of the 3-day old New Moon on April 10th 5 BC (which would have combined to look like a comet's tail), but modern astronomers' best guess is that it was a nova (a star undergoing a temporary outburst of radiation) in the constellation of Aquila, also in 5 BC – it is now only a 16th-magnitude star. We don't really know which of these was the Star of Bethlehem, but we can be pretty sure the year was 5 BC!\n\nSome people think that this shows that Jesus must have been born in the Spring of 5 BC, but they are ignoring the fact that, if Herod wanted to kill all boys under the age of two (Mt. 2:16), it was probably because Jesus was about one year old at the time. Thus, Jesus was probably born in the previous year – 6 BC.\n\nLuke tells that a census was ordered by Augustus (Lk. 2:1) and carried out by Quirinius (or Cyrenius), the governor of Syria (Lk. 2:2). Now, Quirinius was "legat" of Syria in 6 AD, but many bible historians hold the opinion that he was also in office (as a consul) 13 years earlier (i.e. in 8 BC), and newer research has found that there was a census ordered by Rome in 12 BC, which was not concluded until after 7 BC (orders took time, and Syria was on the edge of the Roman Empire!) Thus, if Jesus was born in 6 BC, it is still possible that Luke’s account is historically accurate.\n\nAt what time of year was Jesus born?\nLk. 2:1 tells us that at this time Caesar Augustus had decreed that all the world should be taxed. We may be assured that Quirinius would not have ordered a census to be taken in winter, at the worst possible period for travel; but Luke's account that the shepherds were abiding in the field keeping watch over their flocks by night (Lk. 2:8) lets us know that Jesus was born in summer or early autumn. Since December is cold and rainy in Judea, it is likely the shepherds would have sought shelter for their flocks at night.\n\nIf we are going to narrow down the date of Jesus's birth any further, it is going to be necessary to understand how the Hebrew calendar worked.
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Keep reading the Bible with an open mind.\n\nOne thing to remember is that Christianity is originally an EASTERN religion.  It grew out of the EAST and now was sanitized by the west.  One of the things that was whipped away was any notion of reincarnation.  However, it is apparent that the main characters in the Bible, were coming from that kind of Eastern thought.\n\nTake this as another example: MATT 11:\n12From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. 13For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. 14And if you are willing to accept it, ***he is the Elijah who was to come***. 15He who has ears, let him hear.\n\nJohn is Elijah????\n\nOr what about this (mainly to demonstrate what was the natural assumption of the people of that time):Matthew 16:13-15  \n 13When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" \n 14They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." \n 15"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"\n\nReincarnation was a promenent thought of that time.  One COULD miss this in scripture, but it would be hard to do.
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i heard it a while back yeah, except "basic" instead of "brief".. some other stuff: the names of the first 10 patriarchs of the bible tell God's plan.. lookee here\nhttp://www.susancanthony.com/aboutSusan/bibleits.html\n\nanother interesting thing is when God was on the cross, they hung a sign that said "Jesus the Nazarean and King of the Jews" which in hebrew is: Yeshua HaNazarei WMelech HaYehudim, the first letter from each  is Y-H-W-H, the name of God...
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Dear biloxi_missi...,  I will use the Word of God to sincerely and  honestly answer this question.  St. Matthew Chapter 24:verse27   \n" For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west ; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.\nverse 36 ; But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. " ( These words are written in red which denotes the words of Jesus as He spoke )\nSt. Luke Chapter 12: verse 40 ;  Be ye therefore ready also : for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.\n\n  \n \n\nKJV - ZECHARIAH 14    \n\n\n\n 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. \n\n 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. \n\n 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. \n\n 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. \n\n 14:5 And ye shall flee [to] the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, [and] all the saints with thee. \n\n 14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark: \n\n 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening time it shall be light. \n\n 14:8 And it shall be in that day, [that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. \n\n 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. \n\n 14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and [from] the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. \n\n 14:11 And [men] shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. \n\n 14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. \n\n 14:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. \n\n 14:14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. \n\n 14:15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. \n\n 14:16 And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. \n\n 14:17 And it shall be, [that] whoso will not come up of [all] the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. \n\n 14:18 And if the family o
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my favorite Bible story is found in the NT - where Peter steps out of the boat and walks on water, in the midst of a stormy sea...\n\nI like this story in particular, simply because metaphorically it teaches us that we need to keep our eyes on JESUS, and not look at the 'waves' (circumstances, problems, etc) in our life. \n\nIf we fail to keep our eyes on JESUS than we go under - just like Peter did once he start looking at the waves.\n\n\nYes, I believe it's true.\n\nThank you by the way, for asking this question. I think it's a wonderful question and you are to be commended for asking it.\n\nGod Bless.
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The original bible of Jesus was what we refer to as the Old Testament in the Bible, or the Torah, from which He quoted many times.  It's still very much around.
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The Bible dosen's say much about that period of his life. the only thing is him getting lost in Jeruselem
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Intersting that the only reference cited outside the bible is Josefus, who never mentioned Jesus. Any reference to Jesus in his writing was added 1000 years later by other 'christians 'trying to strengthen their arguement.\n\nGreenleaf may have decided that the story was real but I don't believe that it would stand up in court. It would be interesting to look at his background.