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Today is Friday, March 15th, 2019.

We, of course, are still in our Lenton season.

And this week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about the birth and early years of Jesus Christ.

We are talking about Jesus as the great teacher, and we will be talking

about him all through Lent. This week already, we've talked about why God became man. We talked about

the great act of love that was the incarnation. We also discussed how Jesus was born into dangerous and uncertain circumstances,

and how through that, God has blessed the humble and the weak, and we should remember to pray for them.

Yesterday we talked about the story of finding Jesus in the temple when he was 12 years old,

and today we are going to talk about the two verses

that cover the rest of Jesus' life before his public ministry began. Now, the gospel of Luke

is really the only gospel that goes into any detail about Jesus' early life. It is, of course, where we get the

story of finding Jesus in the temple. Following that story, we have these two verses. He went down

with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. And his mother kept all these things

in her heart. And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and favor before God and man. From there,

we go to the baptism of Jesus, which is the first part of his public ministry.

Now, a lot of biblical scholars agree that Jesus started his public ministry around the age of 30,

and that his public ministry lasted at the most three years.

So we have the story of Jesus's birth. We have one story from when he was 12 years old,

and then we skip all the way to when he is 30 years old. Now even if you are new to math,

you can probably figure out that most of the years of Jesus's life are not recorded in any way in the

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