Learning Carpentry - How was Jesus' teenage years and his twenties left out in the bible?

How was Jesus' teenage years and his twenties left out in the bible?

On the new testament, why there is no such mention of Jesus when he was in his 13-late twenties? No story about him, no mention of how he grow up. He was born in a manger from a virgin and learn carpentry from joseph then on the next page he's healing people before he was crucified. Is that a little something important to leave out of his story of him being a teenager or young man? Who knows, he probably a bad jew with no friends in school or get picked on by his classmates.... Ever wonder why?

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Because God did not need to have it in there.
Jesus is nothing more than a character in a fairy tale. They could have at least made some stuff up. Even Santy Claus has a special that shows how he grew up.
The record of Jesus is for teaching, fulfillments and his accomplishments in serving God not an in depth biography. The Bible in entirety deals on importantly relevant matters. I take it these facts bother some people I suppose you in turn want to be taken seriously also?
the Bible was never intended to be a biographical account of the life of Jesus.
It isn't left out of the Bible. It says He lived in Nazareth and worked as a carpenter. Jesus never left Israel during all that time, He never "went to India or China" or any such thing.
Because he was breaking all the 10 commandments.
it wasnt important.....HIS MINISTRY was His earthly purpose...
There are stories left out of the New Testament that never made it, when Jesus was in his youth. In fact, there's such a story, of a young Jesus playing on the roof of a house with a few of his friends, he pushed one off the roof and killed him, then Jesus healed him back to life.
good question...teenage years are hard for anyone, imagine if you are the son of god!!! you would think they would include that part...its probably because, just like any human, jesus was a little horn ball in his teenage years and the church didnt want you to know about it. EDIT: bob n says there wasnt room for anymore...how can there not be anymore room in literature?! its a book! you can write forever if you have to...yet "there wasnt enough room" for his youth?! weak explanation
bible did talk about him when he was 12. he was teaching in the temple, people Marvel at him
jesus was in prison. that is why so many people there find him today.
The ones who invented him weren't great authors, so they just made a "bare bones" story with many contradictions and omissions.
Because a lot of stuff was left out -- mostly the less important stuff. The story of his birth is there, and his miracles, and his death, and his apostles after his death. There wasn't enough room for any more.
For the simple reason that it would be too hard to make up any credible stories about his youth. Jesus never existed, and the authors probably knew that.
It was in the original bible, but as a child "jesus" had a thing for striking other kids dead an blind, so they cut that part out a long time ago.
His life was too boring to even mention.
he didn't have friends, he's a mommy boy
Because He was still increasing in grace with God and men until the time was right and He was baptized by John in the Jordan.
acoms razor tells us that the most logical answer - is that Jesus never existed in the first place. I love how people come up with all kinds of scenarios, when all of them are wrong. That's called "grasping at straws". Grow up, already.
Because in addition to being fully God, Jesus is also fully man. So there was probably nothing very remarkable about His formative years (except for the glimpse we have of twelve-year-old Jesus teaching in the temple). In His life on earth, Jesus HAD to be run-of-the mill, or His resurrection would not be a miracle.
Because the Gospels that contained that info weren't considered "inspired" and were rejected from inclusion in the canon. See the "Infancy Gospel of Thomas", as well as a little bit of info in the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
If Jesus had really existed, you would probably have found that he was married in his mid teens and had raised a family before he started preaching in his early 30's. This would not have been unusual for the time - but doesnt really fit in with church doctrine
http://www.cygnus-study.com/pageinf.html
Because it was boring and irrelevant. (Even putting in the infancy stories was a mistake.)
When Mary and Joseph could not find Jesus and they ended up finding him preaching in the temples is when He was a child.
Well scripture does mention that Christ " grew in wisdom and stature" and it also mentions him at a young age when Mary & Joseph thought He was lost and they found Him "...in the temple, teaching the priests".... so I think the point is that HE lived a fairly normal young life and gained knowledge and wisdom and awareness and even though He was the perfect Son of God, HE TOO experienced mortality as we do in many aspects and when He matured and grew to the appropriate time it THEN became time that WHO HE was be made known. His brief ministry and recorded years are ALL we need to know. If there was more to know and learn that was important for our salvation then undoubtedly God would have made such a time known to us as well.
check out glenn kimbal andhis book hidden stories of jesus childhood or politics of the crucifixion and other related books Edit: personally i believe Jesus was married and i believe he was married to a princess out of egypt as well as in Israel.
The simplest answer is assume the Gospels are eyewitness accounts, as three of them indicate they are (Luke does not). The writers talk about the stuff they saw, and go light on the background. That is exactly what a neutral observer would expect of an eyewitness.