After participating in a family outing to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast of Passover, the young boy goes his own way and becomes separated from his parents and their traveling caravan.

The stories of Jesus’ birth are stories of travel. In the Gospel of Luke, Mary and Joseph travel through the national territory, from Nazareth in Jewish Galilee to Bethlehem in Jewish Judea.

A more accurate translation, Strauss said, is “a guest room in a private house or a shelter, a caravanserai, where caravans stop.” In St. Luke’s Gospel, Mary and Joseph travel from Nazareth ...

A more accurate translation, Strauss said, is “a guest room in a private house or a shelter, a caravanserai, where caravans stop.” In St. Luke’s Gospel, Mary and Joseph travel from Nazareth ...

After participating in a family outing to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast of Passover, the young boy goes his own way and becomes separated from his parents and their traveling caravan.

Therefore, it’s likely that a caravan set out from Nazareth and that Jesus, Mary and Joseph were in it. The Gospel says as much when it notes that, for the return trip, Jesus was not apparently ...

WHAT if Jesus had been born in Newcastle? We are all familiar with the story of Mary and Joseph travelling to Bethlehem on a donkey. But now the traditional nativity has been given a Geordie twist.