This is how Jesus lived his childhood and youth

How did Jesus live his childhood and youth? Is it true that he went to India? Father José de Jesús Aguilar, deputy director of Radio and Television of the Primate Archdiocese of Mexico, responds to this and other myths.

Father Aguilar remembers in a video published on his YouTube channel that “Christmas time has just ended. We have seen how the Magi adored the Child Jesus and now, just a week later, we are remembering that this Child is now almost 30 years old and is baptized by John the Baptist.”

“And it comes at this time when we are used to gossip magazines telling us the ‘rhythm and reason’ of all the people: what they did, what happened, etc. We thought the same thing was happening at that time,” lamented the priest.

Father Aguilar specifies that “God, when he allows the Holy Scripture to be written, inspires some people to talk about essential things, important things.”

“Therefore, in the Bible we are going to find certain elements of history, but not complete history of all the characters, not biographies,” he warns.

“We are going to find prophecies, we are going to see how they are fulfilled and above all we are going to find that God asks us for certain elements, such as the commandments, for example, so that we have an adequate life and get closer to this salvation that Christ offers us.” ”.

The Mexican priest then indicated that, following the Jewish customs of the time, “Jesus Christ met with his family every Saturday to celebrate the Sabbatthat Saint Joseph was in charge of teaching him the Jewish laws, of taking him to the synagogue so that he could pray there.”

He also points out that “Jesus let his hair grow like all Jews, his beard too, that Jesus Christ used a cloak for prayers, that he prayed with the psalms, that he went to Jerusalem every year and that he worked in his father’s workshop, with the trade that he learned precisely from him.”

Father Aguilar then warns that “those stories that appear in our time about the Child Jesus who performed miracles, who got angry and caused someone to die, etc., are not taken from the Gospels, but are taken from elements that emerged many years later.”

The priest also highlights that in the so-called “apocryphal gospels” it is said “that Jesus Christ, suddenly, when he saw that his father lacked boards to do work, he touched them and they lengthened, or that the child began to make birds.” of mud, it blew on them and they flew away.”

These “are things that are contrary even to the Gospels, because remember that the Gospel tells us that the first miracle that Jesus Christ performs is that of the Wedding at Cana.”

Therefore, the priest emphasizes, “there were no miracles in the childhood, adolescence and youth of Christ.”

“When the Gospel tells us that the people of their town were surprised when Christ, upon reaching the age of 30, began to preach incredibly, began to perform miracles incredibly, the people said ‘what, isn’t this the son of Joseph, the one who He has grown up with us all the time, isn’t he the carpenter’s son?’ This tells us that Jesus never left Nazareth,” he continues.

“Nothing that he went to study in India, or that he went to study in Kashmir, or that he was among the great rabbis of the Temple of Jerusalem.”

“No, that was precisely what drew attention, that a child, that a teenager, that a young man, that a man who had been growing up in Nazareth all the time had begun to preach in such a way and had performed such extraordinary miracles that “People were watching,” he highlighted.

Originally published January 11, 2020. It has been updated for republication.