Jesus Christ lived 33 years on earth and spent most of them in obscurity. It is hard to absorb this fact. The Son of God, entering a broken world, did not use his power to immediately reconfigure it, but chose instead to submerge himself in his circumstances and live as one of us.
He did this so well that many observers failed to grasp the truth of his nature. Most of his life elapsed in ways that must have seemed nondescript; only a few years are recorded. Christ’s biography can read as a few carefully detailed episodes—the birth in a manger, the dazzling public ministry, the Crucifixion and epochal Resurrection—situated at the opposite ends of three sparsely observed decades.
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