The reason that each of the four gospels spends such little time discussing the early years of Jesus is due to the fact that the key major events of his life took place in his final years on earth. While the bible has stories of Jesus in cases such as his birth and when he taught the wise men in the temple, his true ministry comes forward in his later years. Due to this fact, the different writers of the gospel focused on these moments more simply so that the true lessons of Jesus would stand out
