What was the relationship between Joseph and Jesus?
Joseph cared for Jesus as a father. People thought Jesus was the son of Joseph, and Mary said to Jesus, “your father and I.” Luke 3:23; Luke 2:48
What the Bible says
Luke 2:48
And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
If someone told it to you in today’s words
When Herod was searching for the child to kill him, Joseph took Jesus and Mary to Egypt. Matthew 2:13-14
When Jesus was twelve, he stayed behind in Jerusalem without Joseph and Mary knowing. They looked for him for three days. Luke 2:42-46
When they found him in the Temple, Mary told him that his father and she had been looking for him with great anxiety. Luke 2:46-48 Then Jesus went back to…
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