Note: This article was originally published on Mysterious Universe (MU)
The Gospels contain surprisingly scanty information about the early life of Jesus. Only four out of the eighty nine chapters in the Gospels – two each in Matthew and Luke – describe Jesus’s life prior to his ministry. As per Matthew, the family fled to Egypt when Jesus was an infant, and returned to Nazareth after the death of Herod in 4 BCE.[1]