A little boy in 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 of 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 who wants to kill all the baby boys living in Bethlehem.

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 the stupid questions, the little boys says, “That’s Pontius the Pilot, of course.”

Source: Rico Tice, One Life What’s It All About, 2011, Malden, Surrey: The Good Book Company, p.105