How long was Jesus in Egypt?

Jesus left Bethlehem to escape to Egypt

The Bible does not specify it but around a year or so.

It is clear that Jesus, Mary and Joseph did not live long in Egypt. All thre of them returned to Nazareth soon after the death of king Herod. Here Joseph fled to Egypt when he was warned of Herods desire to kill Jesus in a dream and angel told him to return to Nazareth as well. ...

The Gospels mention Jesus accompanying His parents to Egypt when He was a child. They mention Him transiting Samaria. However, the Gospels nowhere mention Jesus in Babylon. ...

It isn't known where Jesus lived in Egypt. He was only there for a very short time when an infant. ...

Yes. Jesus was born in Jerusleum, which is in Asia, but his parents fled the country to get away from Herod, and went to Egypt, which is in Africa. Yes, Egypt is in Africa, and when Jesus was young, he went to Egypt. ...

Jesus was in Egypt when he was a young child, but as far as we know he had remained in Israel for the remainder of his time on earth. ...

Answer In Matthew's version of the nativity of Jesus, Joseph and Mary fled with Jesus from Bethlehem to Egypt to escape King Herod, who wanted to have Jesus killed. After Herod died and it appeared safe to do so, they began the journey back to their home in Bethlehem, but being warned in a dream turned aside and made the long journey to Nazareth in Galilee instead....

It was not many years , as they had fled to egypt, the angel told Joseph to return . ...

A: Egypt was a Roman province at the relevant time. There was no king of Egypt....

The bible does not say exactly how long. It does, however, say that they returned at the death of Herod, which was in 4 BC, the same year that we believe to be Jesus's birth year. This means that they must have stayed in Egypt for less than a year. However, the story of the flight into Egypt is probably just a story, written in order to link Jesus to Moses. It probably didn't actually happen. (After all, if all these...

the same way Jesus did...egyptian!

Moses first lived in Egypt, Jesus lived in Nazareth..

Herod the Great wanted to kill Jesus. When Joseph, Mary and Jesus fled to Egypt, Herod had no authority there. Even if he could have sent men into Egypt to kill Jesus, they probably could not have found the family. ...

After they fled to Egypt , it is said in the bible when they brought the baby to the temple and Symon and Anna were there. So Herod died soon after the birth of Jesus. ...

It flowed through Egypt as long as it was there and it still flows through Egypt. ...

As far as I know Mark went to Egypt after the crucifixion.

No he is not from Africa, but he did go to Egypt as a baby.

He traveled to Bethlehem , Nazareth and Egypt.

In Egypt and in Nazareth

He came to live in Nazareth.

A: Matthew's Gospel does not say how long the flight into Egypt took. The majority consensus of New Testament scholars is that the nativity story in Matthew was written in order to draw parallels between Moses and Jesus, as well as to explain why Jesus grew up in Nazareth if the home town of Mary and Joseph was really in Bethlehem. They say that the events in the infancy account never really happened, in which case we can never really say how...

Mary , Joseph and the baby Jesus fled in the night to Egypt.

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In my opinion: The Egypt that Jesus leads us out of is the inability to achieve salvation. Jesus enabled people to go to heaven. However, unlike the story of the Jews' escape from Egypt, not all of us will escape to paradise. We must give to the least of his people is he is to save us. ...