What do you think really happened during the migration of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus into Egypt.?

Question

The specifics of this migration are not mentioned in the bible. All these three were foreigners to Egypt.
How were they treated? Were they able to get work there or were they just there to seek shelter until it was safe to go back home.?

Answer 1

Don't post spoilers for Fireball. That's in one of those books she hasn't read yet ie. the Bible.

Answer 2

WAIT A MINUTE.... What Eqypt? They were supposed to be in Jerusalem all the while!!!



No Wise Men. No Babies Killing. No Egypt.



Luke 2 (Bethlehem [Angel/Shepherds] - JERUSALEM - Nazareth)

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Luk 2:4 And Joseph also went ... unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem;

Luk 2:15 .. the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem,

Luk 2:16 And they came ...and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

Luk 2:21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child,

Luk 2:22 And when the days of her purification [over], they brought him to Jerusalem,

Luk 2:39 And when they had performed all things ... to their own city Nazareth.

Answer 3

There was a large Jewish community in Alexandria.

This is where they presumably went.



The community had structures for temporarily putting people up and for providing support for those in need.

The synagogue in Alexandria had different sections for people with different professions -- Joseph would have gone to the carpenters' section to find work.



Ironicaly, the international structure for supporting the needy Jews was largely based on the fees charged to change money for sacrifices at the temple. So, as an adult, when he smashed up the tables of the money changers, Jesus was biting the hand which had fed his family.

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Answer 4

Didn't happen, that was a fabrication of the writer of Matthew. Both Nativity Stories (in Matthew and in Luke) contain so many boneheaded errors, and contradict each other so much that both have to be regarded as being cut from whole cloth. Fictional nativity narratives were the norm at that time.

Answer 5

Well they used one of the very well known trade routes called Euphrates Trans Jordan. Which was the best way, because they went with others traveling to Egypt. What did they use for money, the gifts of the Magi. They were given gold frankincense and myrrh.

Answer 6

There's not a lot of evidence that such a trip actually occurred.



You have to get to the idea that the authorities had decided to kill a bunch of Jewish male children. The only mention of such a crime is in the 'bible'. Now, Flavius Josephus, who chronicled Jewish History in minute detail never makes mention of such a crime against the Jewish people. Think about it.

Answer 7

Sunburn

Answer 8

It's just a story told to children at christmas and not to be taken seriously.

Answer 9

Jesus is nothing more than a character in a fairy tale, an amalgamation of many much older myths.

Answer 10

You do know the bible is a myth, right?

Answer 11

just lived