Jesus as a child in the Temple
AD 9 traditional (Jones)
- Passage
- Luke 2:41-50
- Place
- Jerusalem
- Before
- Childhood of Jesus
Participants
Divine
Places
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- likely location: Jerusalem
Every verse
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Luke10 verses
- 2:41
Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.
- 2:42
And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast.
- 2:43
When those days were over and they were returning home, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but His parents were unaware He had stayed.
- 2:44
Assuming He was in their company, they traveled on for a day before they began to look for Him among their relatives and friends.
- 2:45
When they could not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for Him.
- 2:46
Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
- 2:47
And all who heard Him were astounded at His understanding and His answers.
- 2:48
When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. “Child, why have You done this to us?” His mother asked. “Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”
- 2:49
“Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”
- 2:50
But they did not understand the statement He was making to them.