First try to answer the following Bible objection yourself. Then you can scroll down for the answer.

Q: In Luke 1:80; 2:52; 4:16, did Jesus travel to India and learn from Hindu teachers, as some New Agers claim?

A: No. When Cultists Ask p.146-148 mentions that the Russian author Nicolas Notovitch said this. It also mentions that Jesus quoted extensively from the Old Testament, and never from the Hindu Vedic “scriptures”. There are five points to consider in the answer.

1. Luke 1:80 refers to John the Baptist, not Jesus. Zechariah was John’s father, and Zechariah’s song of praise to God in Luke 1:67-79 refers not to Jesus but to his child, “a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him” (Lk 1:76 NIV)

2. Luke 2:39-40 says that Jesus returned to Nazareth, not India.

3. Luke 2:41 says that every year Jesus parents, presumably with Jesus, went to Jerusalem.

4. In Luke 2:51-52, after he was twelve years old, Jesus grew up in Nazareth, too.

5. Finally, Luke 4:16 says that Jesus was brought up in Nazareth.

In summary, there is no evidence that Jesus went anywhere outside of Palestine and Egypt. There is as much evidence that Jesus as a boy went to India as that He went to the moon.