When we left the story yesterday, the Magi (wise men) had just visited Jesus and His family and had brought Him some very expensive gifts. During the night, His father has a dream in which the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt" (Matt. 2:13). Although we do not know how Jesus was in Egypt, or all the reasons His heavenly Father took Him there, we do know it was a formative time in His life. Surely Jesus was confronted by people of other cultures and was persecuted for being Jewish in a place that was never friendly to Jew and had a history of bondage and slavery. It was probably not the place Joesph would have chosen for his new family. Maybe Jesus even received several years of education in Egypt, much like Moses did. What will happen to this family next? Today. we will meet the boy Jesus as His family makes their yearly pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Come and see.
Knowing Him Study: pages 25-28
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