9. Jesus in his twenties is all but unknown
Although there are many stories of the young Jesus, mostly centered upon the years before he stunned the scholars in the temple with his knowledge and wisdom, there is a dearth of information in the Apocrypha of the years between his temple appearance and the onset of his ministry, which begins in the gospel accounts with his baptism by John. Following the appearance in the temple as described in Luke, the rest of what in most people would be called his formative years is summed up thus: “And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man”, (Luke 2: 52). From that point on, the biblical accounts leave nothing for posterity to consider.
From the age of twelve until his baptism is a period of roughly 18 years, known to scholars as the lost years. What occurred and what Jesus did during those years is unknown, at least as far as the ancient documents which comprise the Bible and those which were studied and rejected for inclusion in it are concerned. But there are clues. John 21:25 reads, “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written everyone, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen” (John 21″25, King James Version). Here are what some believe some of those “many other things” may have been.