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Jesus had been conceived by [[Mary]] of [[Nazareth]] in [[Galilee]], after she had become the betrothed wife of [[Joseph (father of Jesus)|Joseph]] of the House of [[David]] but before her husband had taken her home, which is the concluding marriage rite that permits a Jewish couple to live together and have conjugal relations. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that Mary and Joseph therefore never consummated their marriage. Their son was born around 4 BC whilst his parents were visiting [[Bethlehem]] in [[Judea]] to fulfil their civic duty of enrolment; and Joseph duly named him "Jesus" in obedience to the angelGabriel's bidding. After a short exile in [[Egypt]] the family eventually returned to Nazareth where he grew up. The canonical Christian Scriptures are silent about his adult life until [[John the Baptist]] publicly witnessed to him being the [[Lamb of God]], whereafter he unsuccessfully claimed his rightful inheritance during the incident called "The Cleasing of the Temple", proclaimed the [[Gospel|Good News]] of God's love and taught that [[repentance]] for the forgiveness of [[sins]] is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations beginning from [[Jerusalem]]. The same sources relate that, after a short public ministry, during the procuratorship of [[Pontius Pilate]], on the day before [[Passover]], he was crucified and died on [[Golgotha]], then just outside Jerusalem, but rose from the dead on the third day and, after showing himself alive on many occasions, was lifted up into Heaven before the eyes of the [[Apostles]] whom he had appointed to be the witnesses of all this.