The Bible In Paintings: JOSEPH AND MARY TRAVEL TO BETHLEHEM

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The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S WORD

JOSEPH AND MARY
TRAVEL TO BETHLEHEM

L U K E
CHAPTER 2

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.

1
ELIZABETH WANG
"As Mary Travelled to Bethlehem, She Was
Like the Son She Would Bear, Resembling Him
in Humility, Love, Trust and Obedience"

2
JOYCE GEBAUER
"Road to Bethlehem"

3
DAN SWEENEY
"Star Light"

4
MICHAEL TOREVELL
"Road to Bethlehem"

5
M SPADECALLER
"Journey to Bethlehem"

6
CATHY BAXTER
"The Road to Bethlehem"

7
RICHARD DE WOLFE
"Journey to Bethlehem"

8
MIKE MOYERS
"Journey to Bethlehem"

9
MARIA HUNT
"Journey to Bethlehem"

10
VALERIE ANNE KELLY
"Mary and Joseph Travel to Bethlehem"

11
VALERIE ANNE KELLY
"The Road to Bethlehem"

12
STEVE GAMBA
"Journey of Hope"

13
JARED MOORE
"Journey to Bethlehem"

14
Source

15
"Journey to Bethlehem"

16
SUE HODGE
"Long Journey to Bethlehem"

17
JOHN McNAUGHTON
"Road to Bethlehem"

18
Source

19
Source

20
Source

21
Source

22
"Trip to Bethlehem"

23
Source

24
Source

25
JOSEPH PARROCEL
"The Virgin and St. Joseph Go from Galilee to Bethlehem"

26
DANIEL RODGERS
"Journey to Bethlehem"

27
HUGO VAN DER GOES
"Mary and Joseph on the Way to Bethlehem"

→ a n d... f i n a l l y ←

28
PIETER BRUEGHEL II
"The Census at Bethlehem"

29
"St. Joseph and Virgin Mary Coming to Bethlehem
to the Census of Population"

To be continued…

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JOSEPH AND
MARY TRAVEL
TO BETHLEHEM

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and happy Monday to everyone.
Beautiful works; many with a feeling of protective tenderness...
Enjoy Brueghel’s paintings, especially his medieval scenes.

Thank you Dan.

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And when they got there something pretty cool happened....

https://youtu.be/H_WAtrpgM6Y

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Good Morning, Dan. :-)

[high info voter]

And when they got there something pretty cool happened....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isuu9EiFU_E

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many with a feeling of protective tenderness

Joseph caring for his pregnant bride, I assume.

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Yes, we’ll have Christmas in October here....

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♫It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!♫

And I will be playing your "Bethlehem" song.

[etabeta]

Good morning, great paintings, all speak of the loneliness of the journey, the hardship of a heavily pregnant Mary, the protective and touching solicitude of Joseph.
Favorites are #17 by John McNaughton; the mosaic at #23 and the Brueghel at #28, the remarkable and versatile artist of the Flemish Renaissance. There is always so much to see in his paintings, here weaving a biblical scene with the life of the village, well balanced in scale, colors and composition.

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Thanks, Alba. Always enjoy reading your commentary—it’s a master-class.

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Wise Men Still Seek Him. :-)

[Ezekiel]

Talk about timing.

I was just there the first thing this morning, reading about the fascinating history of the non-kosher Just Born Jewish Peeps, famous for being indestructible.

Dipped in chocolate, there's no stopping those hovercrafts!

"Pitch"... well if you want to keep everyone else from gobbling them up, that would be a great cover/codeword for chocolate.

13 Things You Never Knew About Peeps

There was even that plan that Jonathan and David cooked up to check if Saul wanted to kill David, or what.

In the first book of Samuel:

20:6 If your father should miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family:

Headquarters: Bethlehem, Pa.

Because from the Food and Wine article:

"The first thing I do when I eat a Peep is bite its head off. Sure, it's rather morbid, but apparently I'm not the only one. According to a 2013 customer survey, nearly two thirds of Peep lovers do the exact same thing and decapitate the poor bird-shaped marshmallow."

What a world!

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And, applying Hebrews 11:6:

Wisest Men Still Earnestly Seek Him. :-)

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Indeed...but harder to fit into a song. LOL.

[Red Badger]

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What Would Jesus Do? Would He start with the Head or save it for last? After all, He came to serve, not to be served....

He put us first by making Himself last, so the Head would be last.

[Ezekiel]

Heads. I think this is the point where the Headless Horsemen finds ♪ El Dorado ♫.

Ride, boldly ride to the end of the rainbow
Ride, boldly ride 'til you find El Dorado.

English: U.S. postage stamp of Legend of Sleepy Hollow -
157,270,000 issued October 12, 1974 - North Tarrytown, New York -
commemorative 1974 10¢ Legend of Sleepy Hollow stamp -
Designer: Leonard Everett Fisher

What timing, on the original Columbus Day. October 12, 1974: Head (r'osh ראש) also means beginning.

Since 1971 (Oct. 11), the holiday has been observed on the second Monday in October,[23] coincidentally exactly the same day as Thanksgiving in neighboring Canada since 1957. (Wikipedia)

Just born: it never ends (all interconnected) because in 2 Kings 4 is the account in Shunam of the son who died and was restored to life at harvest time. "My head, my head."

16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

[Red Badger]

EL DORADO?.......... Nowadays he looks for an Escalade!.................😁😎

[Ezekiel]

LOL