[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Or they decided to settle there for a while which is what I always thought. The wise showed up anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of years later. Remember they had created a scandal back in Nazareth what with the baby coming early and all.

Also traveling with a newborn would have been a major pain.

[Lemondropkid31]

They were there for at least a year. I am not sure they ever left actually because Jesus's Bar Mitzvah was in Bethlehem wasn't it? Isn't that what you have when you turn 13? According to scholars the wise men showed up something like 8 months later, so Jesus was already a toddler. Hahaha traveling with a newborn is hard now, I cannot imagine how it was back then.