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The Trauels of our Lord and Sauiour Christ in his infancie, Matthew 3. Luke 2.
FRom Bethlehem the childe Iesus was brought to Ierusalem, and there presented in the Temple, Anno Mundi 3967, which was 6 miles.
From Ierusalem Ioseph and Marie, (when they had accompli∣shed all things in the Temple of the Lord) carried the childe Iesus to Nazareth in Galile, which was 64 miles.
From thence Ioseph and Marie brought Iesus backe againe to Bethlehem, which was 72 miles.
Vpon the second day of Ianuary, in the second yeare after the natiuitie of Christ, the wise men of Persia brought gifts and wor∣shipped him. A little after, that is, about the Ides of Ianuary, just the night before the command came from Herod to kill the innocent children, Ioseph and Marie went with the childe Iesus through the mountains and desarts of Iudaea, into Aegypt to Her∣mopolis, in the land of Gosen; which was reckoned from Beth∣lehem 296 miles.
From Hermopolis in Aegypt (after the death of Herod) Iesus was brought backe againe by his parents to Nazareth in Iudaea, which was aboue 368 miles.
When Iesus was twelue yeres of age, he went with his parents from Nazareth to Ierusalem, to the feast of the Passeouer, which was 64 miles.
And when his parents had lost him, and found him againe in the Temple among the learned; then he continued in obedience vnto them, and went with them from Ierusalem to Nazareth, which was 64 miles. So his Trauels were 934 miles.
Concerning the townes and places mentioned in his Trauels, you may reade before in the Trauels of the Virgin Marie.