Jesus’ childhood in Matthew

The Gospels do not all tell Jesus’ journeys in the same order. This route follows one Gospel only and does not combine it with the others.

Lines join the stops in the order of the text — the roads themselves are not known. Dashed: by ship. Pale: the site is uncertain.

Stops

1. 1
   BethlehemMatt 2:1After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
2. 2
   EgyptMatt 2:14So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,
3. 3
   NazarethMatt 2:23and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”

Each point is the most likely site (OpenBible.info); a pale point means the identification is uncertain. Places whose site is unknown are not on the map.

Roman roads: the roads of the Roman Empire of about 300 BC – AD 300 by the atlas Itiner-e; dashed — roads it marks as hypothetical. The exact way of the journey along them is not described in the text.