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VBVMI StaffSince the gifts to baby Jesus included gold and valuable spices, can we assume that Joseph became wealthy for a time?
The Bible tells us very little about the gifts Jesus’ family received:
We do not know how much gold Joseph and Mary received, so we cannot say how wealthy they became. Since scripture tells us that Jesus lived a humble, unremarkable life as a child, we must assume that his family was not particularly wealthy despite the gifts. Perhaps the amount of gold given was very small or the family gave some of it away as a tithe. Another theory speculates that the gifts would have funded the family's exile in Egypt for a few years.
All we can say for sure is that the family was not known to be wealthy according to the Gospels.
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