The question of what happened during the lost years of Jesus is practically unsolvable because Jesus did not call attention to anything at all until the moment of his manifestation as Messiah. The Apocryphal Gospels have shown enormous interest in knowing something about those lost years. Could Jesus have traveled to Egypt or India? Theoretically it is possible. The environment that we have of Jesus is 30 years and older and is purely Jewish, for example, we can hardly demonstrate in Jesus direct Greek influences because his thinking is strictly Jewish. There is no ancient document that testifies that Jesus was outside of Palestine.
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Was the Virgin a myth that came from older cultures?
What do we know about the Virgin Mary?
Where does the story of the Magi come from?
What is the origin of Christmas?
What do we really know about the figure of Judas and his suicide?
Did Jesus have brothers?
Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute?
What can we know about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus?
Was Mary Magdalene really at the Last Supper?
Was the character deified by the first Christians by reinterpreting existing scriptures?
What were the main currents of early Christianity?
Was Jesus a notable rabbi?
What can we know about the resurrection of Jesus?
What remarkable contribution do the apocryphal gospels make about the life of Jesus?
Could there be in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas part of the message of a more authentic Jesus?
Why didn't his disciples write about Jesus?
What is the reason why the figure of Jesus has endured in time?
Was Jesus a Christian or did he claim to found any religion?
