8 Jesus grows up in Nazareth

Jesus grows up in Nazareth oseph, Mary and Jesus stayed in Egypt until the Judean king Herod died. After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child s life are So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. The Gospels also tell us that Jesus obeyed his parents. God wants all children to love their parents and to obey them. One of God s Ten Commandments also speaks about this: Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving Matthew 2:1923; Luke 2:40, 52; Exodus 20:12