Flight Into Egypt. Art by Faiqa.
A little boy at Sunday School is asked to draw a picture of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus in the midst of their flight into Egypt. (The teacher had been telling them about the time in Matthew chapter 2, when an angel appears to Joseph in a dream and warns him to flee with his family from the murderous King Herod). So the little boy carefully draws a picture of a huge aeroplane and when the teacher asks him what it is, he points out that it’s ‘the flight into Egypt’, indicating Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus, who are sitting happily in the passenger seats. ‘But who’s that?’ asks the teacher, pointing to a shadowy figure in the cockpit. Growing a bit tired of all the stupid questions, the little says, ‘That’s Pontius Pilot.’
Excerpted from the book Christianity Explored, by Rico Tice & Barry Cooper
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