Jesus Growing Up
Life of Jesus · Draft · BSB
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Date: Birth and childhood. A guided comparison of Gospel accounts, not a measured calendar or a claim that every parallel follows the same sequence.
Jesus returns to Nazareth with his parents and obeys them. Mary keeps these things in her heart while Jesus grows in wisdom, stature and favor.
Luke moves from one visit at age twelve to a summary of years. The atlas does not fill those years with later legends or an invented occupation itinerary.
Primary Scripture
2:51 Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
2:52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
Related Scripture
The wisdom teaching offers a comparison with growth in favor with God and people.
Location evidence
Luke’s growth summary follows the return to Nazareth. It does not supply locations or activities for each unrecorded year.
Event map marker: Identified site; [longitude, latitude] = [35.30153, 32.70675]. This is a teaching marker, not an exact event venue.
Nazareth: Identified site. Coordinates [longitude, latitude]: [35.30153, 32.70675]. Classification source: rule.
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For the class
How does ordinary growth sit alongside the extraordinary announcements?
Interpretation and reuse
Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.
Record source: theographic (265)
Record source: editorial
Events and places adapted from Theographic Bible Metadata (github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata), CC BY-SA 4.0. This adapted data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.
Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.
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