Painting by Italian painter Guido Reni “Joseph and the Baby Jesus”. The size of the painting is 126 x 101 cm, oil on canvas. The plot of the gospel stories about the life of Jesus Christ, Joseph and Mary is revealed as follows. His birth was predicted by the angel Gabriel, who appeared to the Virgin Mary in the Galilean town of Nazareth and announced that she would have a Son, who would be wonderfully conceived by the action of the Holy Spirit; This same angel, not called by name, reveals to Joseph the Handler, the adopter of the future baby from among the impoverished heirs of the Jewish royal dynasty, appearing in a dream to him.
According to Old Testament prophecies, the Messianic king must be born in the land of Judea, in Bethlehem, the legendary city of King David. The providential reason that made Mary expecting a child and Joseph go to Bethlehem is the population census announced by the Roman occupation authorities, according to the rules of which everyone had to register in the place of origin of their own kind.
There, in Bethlehem, Jesus Christ is born – in the barn, “because he had no place in the hotel.” Saving the baby Jesus from King Herod, Mary and Joseph flee with him to Egypt, where they remain until the death of Herod.
The years then spent in Nazareth are generally surrounded by obscurity; it is reported that Jesus Christ learns the craft of a carpenter, that when he reached Jewish religious maturity during a family pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the youth disappeared and was found in the Jerusalem temple “among the teachers, listening to them and asking them” that these Rabbis “marveled at His reason and answers “and that for the rest he was” in obedience “to Mary and Joseph.
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