Oops of the Day  

Jesus first went to the temple when he was 12 and had celebrated his bar-mitzva.

Luke 2:31-42  –  Matthew 2:19-23

Fact of the Day

No!  ! Bar-Mitzva was first recorded in history in the 13th century in France. Jesus’ parents went to the temple every year. The Bible says so.  The reason they took Jesus at age twelve more likely was that cruel King Archaelaeus was so mean (he had killed 3000 in the temple when Jesus was 11), he was banished to Gaul by Caesar. THEN, it was safe to take Jesus to Jerusalem.

MATTHEW 2:19-23 –  “After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”
“So Joseph took the child [Jesus] and his mother and went to the land of Israel.  But when he heard that ARCHAELAEUS was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was AFRAID to go there. Having been WARNED in a dream, he withdrew to the district far-north[province] of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth.”

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