It’s fashionable today for left-leaning evangelicals to claim Jesus was homeless, a refugee, or financially destitute. Was He any of these? What does the Bible say? Being unable to find temporary lodging in a crowded town certainly doesn’t make a family homeless. Matthew 2:11 speaks of “the house” the Wise Men entered when they worshiped Jesus as a child, and Matthew 2:23 indicates that after returning from Egypt, Joseph and his family “dwelt in a city called Nazareth.” As an adult, Jesus left Nazareth and “dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea” (Matt. 4:13). Capernaum was the headquarters of Jesus’ public ministry. Nor was He a refugee. Like His mother and adoptive father, Jesus was a citizen of a province of the Roman Empire. Egypt, to which the family escaped to keep Jesus safe, also was under Roman jurisdiction. Was Jesus poverty-stricken? Next time we’ll answer that question and explore why such images of the Savior matter so much to left-leaning evangelicals.
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