Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth

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The return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth, also known as the return from Egypt, appears in the reports of the early life of

Presentation of Jesus at the Temple.[5]

Return from Egypt

The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt by Jacob Jordaens (c. 1616)

Sometime after Herod had died, the holy family returns from Egypt. Most scholarship places the date of Herod's death around 4 BCE.[6][7][8]

Upon learning that

deposed by Augustus and banished to Vienne in Gaul. Galilee was ruled by Archelaus's brother, Herod Antipas
.

Significance

Alleged "Mary's well" in Nazareth, 1917

In

NIV): the Hebrew word for "branch" is nezer.[9][10]

hypostatically and wholly united to the WORD. For the word nazar signifies to separate, to consecrate, to crown. Wherefore the religious, under the old law, who separated themselves from wine and from the world, and consecrated themselves to God, were called Nazarites. (See Numb. 6:2, seq.) But that Christ would be holy, and consecrated to God, all the prophets foretold, especially Daniel (9:24): “The Holy of Holies—i.e., Christ—shall be anointed.” (Vulgate) Thus, too, Samson, who was a type of Christ, was a Nazarite. (Judg. 13:7.) So, too, was Joseph. (Gen. 49:2) And as Joseph, after his imprisonment, was made lord of Egypt, so Christ, after His death, was made lord of the universe. So S. Ambrose and Ruperti."[11]

In art

The family's return journey from Egypt has frequently been a subject of artistic representation.

Commentary

Some Bible scholars had noted differences in the birth narrative story of the flight. Raymond E. Brown claimed that the narratives are "...contrary to each other in a number of details."[12]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to House of Nazareth.

References

  1. ^ Matthew 2:22
  2. ^ Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus: apocalyptic prophet of the new millennium, Oxford University Press 1999, page 38; Paula Fredriksen, From Jesus to Christ (Second edition, Yale University Press, 2000, page 36); R. T. France, The Gospel of Matthew (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007) page 43; Rudolf Schnackenburg, The Gospel of Matthew, (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2002) page 27; Marcus Borg, 'The Meaning of the birth stories', in Borg and Wright, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (HarperOne, 1999), page 180.
  3. ^ "The Persecuted Child". Bible Gateway. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  4. ^ Luke 2:4
  5. ^ Luke 2:39
  6. ^ Schürer, Emil. A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, 5 vols. New York, Scribner's, 1896.
  7. ^ Barnes, Timothy David. "The Date of Herod's Death," Journal of Theological Studies ns 19 (1968), 204–219
  8. ^ Bernegger, P. M. "Affirmation of Herod's Death in 4 B.C.", Journal of Theological Studies ns 34 (1983), 526–531.
  9. ISBN 9780802864987
    . Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  10. ^ IVP New Testament Commentaries, Growing Up in a Small Town, accessed 29 November 2016
  11. ^ Lapide, Cornelius (1889). The great commentary of Cornelius à Lapide. Translated by Thomas Wimberly Mossman.
  12. ISBN 9780300140088
Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth
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Finding Jesus in the Temple
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