Jesus was a Refugee and an Immigrant

[AProudLefty]

It is Advent, the days when we remember that Jesus is coming to us, the days when we imagine Mary and Joseph making a long and difficult trek—first, to get to a place where they can find shelter and give birth, and then, to escape the murderous rage of a king.

The Jesus we follow was a refugee and an immigrant.

After he was born, fearing that King Herod would murder Jesus as they returned to their homeland in Judea, Mary and Joseph fled with their child to Egypt. The story, in Matthew 2, is not often read in churches because it disrupts our ideas of the nativity. Who wants to move from a peaceful and joyful manger scene to a chaotic story of violence and fear? But this is our story, and this is the Jesus we follow: a child who survived a massacre by fleeing to a safer land

Jesus was a Refugee and an Immigrant

It is Advent, the days when we remember that Jesus is coming to us, the days when we imagine Mary and Joseph making a long and difficult trek—first, ...

www.sneucc.org

 

[Magats_Love_NHB]

 

[Nordberg]

Trump was not in charge then. He would have had him sent to Columbia.

 

[Yakuda]

It is Advent, the days when we remember that Jesus is coming to us, the days when we imagine Mary and Joseph making a long and difficult trek—first, to get to a place where they can find shelter and give birth, and then, to escape the murderous rage of a king.

The Jesus we follow was a refugee and an immigrant.

After he was born, fearing that King Herod would murder Jesus as they returned to their homeland in Judea, Mary and Joseph fled with their child to Egypt. The story, in Matthew 2, is not often read in churches because it disrupts our ideas of the nativity. Who wants to move from a peaceful and joyful manger scene to a chaotic story of violence and fear? But this is our story, and this is the Jesus we follow: a child who survived a massacre by fleeing to a safer land

Jesus was a Refugee and an Immigrant

It is Advent, the days when we remember that Jesus is coming to us, the days when we imagine Mary and Joseph making a long and difficult trek—first, ...

www.sneucc.org

Buffoonish

 

[Walt]

Jesus actually moved around a bit at a time that moving around was frowned upon. He would have been conceived in Galilee. His parents crossed over Samaria to enter Judea, where Jesus was born. They then fled Judea for Egypt. A few years later they crossed Judea, and Samaria again to get to Galilee, which Jesus called home (even though he was not born there). He then crossed over Samaria to get to Judea where he died.

If you include the travel of his mother when she was pregnant, Jesus would have crossed eight national borders. He would have lived most of his life in a country he was not born in. Much of the time he was hiding his origin from authorities.

If you believe the Biblical story of Jesus' life.

 

[Hume]

It is Advent, the days when we remember that Jesus is coming to us, the days when we imagine Mary and Joseph making a long and difficult trek—first, to get to a place where they can find shelter and give birth, and then, to escape the murderous rage of a king.

The Jesus we follow was a refugee and an immigrant.

After he was born, fearing that King Herod would murder Jesus as they returned to their homeland in Judea, Mary and Joseph fled with their child to Egypt. The story, in Matthew 2, is not often read in churches because it disrupts our ideas of the nativity. Who wants to move from a peaceful and joyful manger scene to a chaotic story of violence and fear? But this is our story, and this is the Jesus we follow: a child who survived a massacre by fleeing to a safer land

Jesus was a Refugee and an Immigrant

It is Advent, the days when we remember that Jesus is coming to us, the days when we imagine Mary and Joseph making a long and difficult trek—first, ...

www.sneucc.org

So, execute all immigrants because of Jesus?