Did Jesus Visit Other Parts of the World?آیا عیسی از دیگر نقاط جهان دیدن کرد؟

It is rather difficult to take the legend of Jesus accompanying Joseph of Arimathea to England seriously when “the earliest mention of Joseph at Glastonbury dates to around 1247.”3 The tradition of Joseph traveling anywhere to Britain cannot be traced back before about 1200. The earliest versions had Joseph going to England years after Jesus’ death and resurrection in a story that was entwined with lore about the Holy Grail, King Arthur, and other elements of medieval English legend.4 Not even John of Glastonbury’s account of the church’s history written a century later (ca. 1342) mentioned the story of the boy Jesus accompanying Joseph to England. William Blake’s famous poem “Jerusalem” in 1811 asked:

به سختی می توان افسانه همراهی عیسی با یوسف آریماتیایی به انگلستان را جدی گرفت، زیرا «اولین ذکری از یوسف در گلستونبری به حدود سال 1247 بازمی گردد». در نسخه های اولیه جوزف سال ها پس از مرگ و رستاخیز عیسی در داستانی که با افسانه های مربوط به جام مقدس، شاه آرتور و دیگر عناصر افسانه انگلیسی قرون وسطی آمیخته بود، به انگلستان رفت. یک قرن بعد (حدود 1342) داستان پسر عیسی را ذکر کرد که یوسف را به انگلستان همراهی کرد. در شعر معروف ویلیام بلیک به نام «اورشلیم» در سال 1811 این سوال مطرح شد:

Given that there is no evidence for a belief in Jesus literally walking in England prior to Blake, his poem may actually have contributed (inadvertently) to that belief, which first emerges as an historical claim later in the nineteenth century.5 The notion has usually functioned more or less innocuously as the basis for some “bragging rights” about England’s Christian heritage.

According to Luke, after the incident when Jesus was twelve and Joseph and Mary returned to Jerusalem to find him, he “returned to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them…. Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and all the people” (Luke 2:51, 52 NLT). This passage assumes (as one would expect) that Jesus continued to live in Nazareth for years after he had turned twelve. Luke says explicitly that Jesus “had been brought up” in Nazareth (Luke 4:16). The Gospels also report that people in Jesus’ hometown of Nazareth knew him as the carpenter (Mark 6:3), a trade he learned from Joseph (Matt. 13:55), which shows that Jesus also spent his young adult years there.