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To: Lemondropkid31
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?

They left before the Roman soldiers came to kill every child under the age of two. Jesus had his (what is today called a Bar Mitzvah) at the age of 12 because he was considered to be illegitimate.
121 posted on 12/24/2004 9:57:08 AM PST by superskunk (Quinn's Law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.)
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To: superskunk
because he was considered to be illegitimate

What's your text for that? In the Gospels, the people of Nazareth refer to Jesus as "Joseph's son" or "the carpenter's son." There's no indication I'm aware of that Jesus was not considered the legitimate son of Joseph.

126 posted on 12/24/2004 10:00:25 AM PST by Tax-chick (Benedicere cor tuo! Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?)
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To: superskunk

DOH!!! You are right. Shame on me!!! I am supposed to know this stuff. Ok, According to Matthew God told Joseph to flee to Egypt to wait Herod's deathand they stayed there till Herod died, so obviously he died within a few years. When Herod saw he had been decieved he got ticked off and thats when he ordered the male babies in Bethlehem to be slaughtered, between birth and two years of age. Then Joseph took them to Isreal and then Nazareth. In Luke it says that Jesus's parents went every year to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover and they went when Jesus was 12. It does not say in Luke he had his Bar Mitzvah though. Do you know where it says anything about that?


133 posted on 12/24/2004 10:05:54 AM PST by Lemondropkid31 (Vote for the man who has bible-based values. Vote Bush.)
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To: superskunk
Jesus had his (what is today called a Bar Mitzvah) at the age of 12 because he was considered to be illegitimate.

Whoa there! Getting knocked up after the betrothal but before the wedding was scandalous (it cast aspirations on the bride and groom's ability to control themselves) but in no way did it make the child illegitimate. They were already legally bound.

148 posted on 12/24/2004 10:30:07 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum (Merry Christmas))
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