A Virtual Journey in the Footsteps of Jesus: Episode 02, Young Jesus
In this episode, we try to reconstruct the so-called “lost years” of Jesus — the gap of some 20 years, between the Nativity narratives and Jesus’ sojourn with John the Baptist, about which the Gospels are utterly silent. What happened in this period? As it turns out, this was actually a time of tremendous turmoil in Galilee and Judea. After the havoc of the peasant rebellion of 4 B.C.E., Emperor Augustus’s patience with Herod’s dysfunctional sons finally ran out some 10 years later, in 6 C.E. He ousted Ethnarch Herod Archelaus from Judea and turned the region into a Roman Crown Province, to be governed by a prefectus reporting to the governor of Roman Syria. This is how, 20 years later, prefect Pontius Pilate came to play such a key role in the Passion of Jesus. And second, Tetrarch Herod Antipas of Galilee, who had hoped to replace his brother Archaelaus as ruler of Judea, decided to pour his frustration in building a new Galilean capital city at Sepphoris — just four miles distant from a small hamlet called Nazareth. All these developments would have a profound impact on the life of Jesus.
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