So, where WAS Jesus from ages 12-30?

[sydbarrettangel]

Anyone know or venture a guess?

 

[bibleberean]

Mark 6:3-4 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

 

[Lewis]

Yes Jesus was a carpenter. I think it would be safe to say that He was helping to take care of His family, in those days if the father was not around, the oldest male child would help take care of the family, and at the same time God was raising Him up in His earthly body to become what He became. And God saw fit not to allow the Holy Ghost, to inspire man to write down about those missing years.
God inspired man to write what He deemed should be wrote down. So God deemed that, the growth years of Jesus was not important enough to put in His book. Or othewise it would have been in the book. It would also be safe to say that during those years Jesus was in constant contact with the Father, gaining in His earthly body the things of the Father to pass on to you. And at around the age of 30 those things came to be.

 

[cly]

I also agree that He was a carpenter. That's what Joseph did, so it stands to reason that he would have taught his sons (even those that he was only a step-father to) the trade.

 

[Lonelyguide]

Someone by the name of Levi Dowling worked some 30 or so years on a book which also deals with this period of Jesus' life. It is called "The Acquarian Gospel."

 

[bibleberean]

The bible deals with the life of Jesus.

Watch out for false teachers...

2 Corinthians 11:3-4 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

The Aquarian Gospel is not based on the word of God.

 

[Shinto]

The bible deals with the life of Jesus.

Watch out for false teachers...

2 Corinthians 11:3-4 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

The Aquarian Gospel is not based on the word of God.

Is speculation that he remained to help his family as a carpenter based on the word of God? No? O man, does that make you a false teacher?

Come off it.

 

[Lonelyguide]

Watch out for false teachers.

You forgot your other faves. Whatever happened to the heretics, the ministers of satan, the false apostles, the deceitful workers, the serpents and the vipers?

 

[Vic C.]

Yes Jesus was a carpenter. I think it would be safe to say that He was helping to take care of His family, in those days if the father was not around, the oldest male child would help take care of the family, and at the same time God was raising Him up in His earthly body to become what He became. And God saw fit not to allow the Holy Ghost, to inspire man to write down about those missing years.....

I think Lewis put it in perspective. I don't think He was anywhere else, teaching, preaching or whatever. He says this, which is after the "missing" timeframe.

John 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

He was just then coming into His "time".