Joseph and Mary weren't really exiled. They fled from the wrath of Herod and were warned by God to go to avoid this. Herod would have killed Jesus if he could - thus it was for Jesus' sake, not their own, that they left.
The Holy Family fled to Egypt to escape King Herod's order to kill all male infants in Bethlehem. An angel warned Joseph in a dream to take Mary and Jesus to safety in Egypt until it was safe to return.
This does not apply to Luke's Gospel, since Nazareth was already Joseph's home town and the young family returned there peacefully just a few days after the birth of Jesus, never returning to Bethlehem.
In Luke's Gospel, Joseph took Jesus to Jerusalem and then home to Nazareth quite shortly after his birth in Bethlehem. But, in Matthew's Gospel, Joseph took Jesus to Egypt instead. This is because, in Matthew's account, wise men came from the east and told King Herod of a baby born to be king of the Jews. Matthewsays that Herod intended to kill Jesus, so Joseph fled with Mary and Jesus to Egypt and remained there until after the death of Jesus.
Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt in the night as king Herod found that the wisemen had tricked him and gone to their own land by another route as the angel had told them to do so. Even a angel told Joseph to go in a dream.
In Luke's Gospel, Joseph, Mary and Jesus never went to Egypt. When it was time for Mary's purification, the young family went from Bethlehem to Jerusalem to present Jesus at the Temple, then returned home to Nazareth just a few weeks after the birth of Jesus.
In Matthew's Gospel, the magi, or wise men told King Herod that a baby was born, who would be king of the Jews. Herod planned to kill Jesus, but Joseph, being warned in a dream, fled with Mary and Joseph to the safety of Egypt. They remained there until the death of Herod. After Herod's death, they set out to return to their home in Bethlehem. Once again warned in a dream, they turned aside and travelled to a new home in Nazareth.
The Bible does not say, although they would have to either walk or, if they could afford it, go by donkey. The flight to Egypt is only in Matthew's Gospel, and John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus) says that Matthew was clearly writing Christian midrash - essentially a literary creation based on a religious theme. On Spong's view and that of many biblical scholars, they did not travel to Egypt at all.
In Luke's Gospel, Joseph never took Jesus and Mary to Egypt - soon after the birth of Jesus, he took them to Jerusalem and then home to Nazareth. However, Matthew's nativity is a completely different story in which Bethlehem was actually their home town and the young family fled from Bethlehem to Egypt for fear of King Herod.
In this account, magi came from the east to Jerusalem, where they asked King Herod where to find the baby born to be King of the Jews. They had followed a star westwards to Jerusalem and it now turned and moved to the south-east, taking them to Bethlehem, where it stopped over the very house where Jesus lay. Herod had asked the wise men to return to Jerusalem and tell him where to find Jesus, but they returned home a different way. Realising that he had been tricked, Herod ordered all the boys under two years old to be slaughtered, but Joseph was warned in a dream and took Mary and Jesus to Egypt. After the death of Herod, the young family began the return journey to Bethlehem but, being once again warned in a dream, turned aside and travelled to a new home in Nazareth.
Because Herod said that he would kill any boy under the age of 2 because he wanted to kill Jesus.
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The Bible does not specifically say, but most likely around a year or so.
Jesus escaped to Egypt from Bethlehem, not Nazareth. King Herod, who wanted to kill him, ordered the massacre of all infant boys in Bethlehem, prompting Joseph and Mary to flee to Egypt with Jesus to keep him safe.
Jacob took his family to Egypt to reunite with his son Joseph, who had become a powerful ruler in Egypt. There was a severe famine in the land, and Joseph had urged his family to come to Egypt where there was food and shelter available.
Jacob's family consisted of 70 people when they went to Joseph in Egypt, as mentioned in Genesis 46:27.
Mary , Joseph and the baby Jesus fled in the night to Egypt.
According to the Bible, Joseph settled his family in Goshen, a region in the northeastern Nile Delta of Egypt. Goshen was a fertile area suitable for grazing and agriculture, which helped sustain Joseph's family during the time of famine.
Joseph was warned in a dream to take the young child and his mother and flee to Egypt untill he hears from God again. (Matthew 2.13) So "the holy family" that fled to Egypt, were Joseph and Mary and Jesus.
Egypt
They moved to Egypt at one point.
Jesus was born in Bethlehem and grew up in Nazareth, where he began his ministry. Throughout his life, he traveled through various regions in modern-day Israel and Palestine, preaching his message of love and salvation. He eventually moved to Jerusalem where he was crucified and rose from the dead.
The death of King Ptolemy caused the Auletes to flee Egypt.
Here Jesus was not warned to flee, but the angel warned Joseph in a dream.
God did in a dream.
A:The flight to Egypt is in Matthew's Gospel, where it is used to draw several parallels between Moses and Jesus. The Holy Family began to return from Egypt to their home in Bethlehem, recalling the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land, when Joseph was warned in a dream of further danger in Judah and so turned aside and travelled to Galilee where they settled in a city called Nazareth.
The angel never actually said to go to a town. He merely said to flee to Egypt and to wait for Herod to die.
The Holy Family is the family of Jesus, Mary, and, Joseph.
Egypt is mentioned positively in the 3 holy books ; Torah , Bible and Quraan .
It seems to me that there is a gap in the story of Jesus.His parents flee to Egypt with him and he next appears grown up. What happened in between?