{"id":36427,"date":"2022-09-13T12:55:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/where-was-jesus-christ-and-what-was-he-doing-between-the-ages-of-12-and-30\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:55:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:55:23","slug":"where-was-jesus-christ-and-what-was-he-doing-between-the-ages-of-12-and-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/where-was-jesus-christ-and-what-was-he-doing-between-the-ages-of-12-and-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Where was Jesus Christ and what was He doing between the ages of 12 and 30?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The <strong>Bible\ufeff is silent<\/strong> about what Jesus was doing between 12-30 years of age. However, he probably learned the <strong>trade of carpentry <\/strong>from his stepfather, Joseph, as was the custom in those days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also did <strong>not permit himself to stand out and perform miracles<\/strong>.&nbsp; If he had, he would have become famous and attracted a following of men. There are absolutely <strong>no historical nor scriptural documentations of Jesus performing miracles<\/strong> as a child. Changing the water into wine at the wedding of Cana was Jesus&rsquo;s first miracle. &ldquo;This <strong>beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana<\/strong> of Galilee,&rdquo; John 2:11. Instead, it is likely he <strong>quietly<\/strong> went about doing <strong>carpentry<\/strong> and<strong> fulfilling the responsibilities of the oldest<\/strong> son.&nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Jesus lived and stayed in Nazareth. He was identified by the people as, &ldquo;This is <strong>Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth<\/strong> of Galilee,&rdquo; Matthew 21:11.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>There are some apocryphal accounts of Jesus&rsquo;s childhood. But these are unsupported and do not harmonize with the Gospel accounts of Jesus&rsquo;s life.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible\ufeff is silent about what Jesus was doing between 12-30 years of age. However, he probably learned the trade of carpentry from his stepfather, Joseph, as was the custom in those days.&nbsp; He also did not permit himself to stand out and perform miracles.&nbsp; If he had, he would have become famous and attracted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/where-was-jesus-christ-and-what-was-he-doing-between-the-ages-of-12-and-30\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where was Jesus Christ and what was He doing between the ages of 12 and 30?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}