The Child, the Boy, the Man Few People Know  The Child, the Boy,
the Man Few People Know  There was once a young man in
Palestine—a strong, vibrant, intelligent youth—whose destiny it
was, in the prime of his life, to die on a Roman cross,
crucified for the sins of the world.  We know him as the Son of
God, the only perfect person who ever lived. And we marvel at
the miracles he wrought, the truths that fell from his lips, and
the power and wisdom that he manifest in the days of his
ministry.  But what of his maturing years? Was he like other
Jewish lads, subject to pain and sorrow and disease and to all
the ills of the flesh? Have you ever wondered:  —Where and under
what circumstances was Jesus born?  —What did he do as a young
child, as a Jewish boy, as a maturing man?  —Was he like all the
other young men of Galilee and Judea and Perea, or did he live
some kind of a sheltered and hallowed life?  —Who were his
friends and what kind of an association did they have with each
other?  I can tell you a great ma