Luke 2:46

It was not until the third day that they found him in the Temple Courts, sitting among the teachers, now listening to them, now asking them questions.

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In The King James Version

And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

In Context

45and then, as they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching everywhere for him.

47All who listened to him marvelled at his intelligence and his answers.

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Cross References

Matthew 16:21At that time Jesus Christ began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and undergo much suffering at the hands of the elders, and chief priests, and teachers of the Law, and be put to death, and rise on the third day.

Luke 2:44Thinking that he was with their fellow travellers, they went one day’s journey before searching for him among their relatives and acquaintances;

Acts 5:34But Gamaliel, a Pharisee, who was a Doctor of the Law and who was held in universal respect, rose in the Council, and directed that the men should be taken out of court for a little while.

Matthew Henry on Luke 2:42-52

Christ Sitting with the Doctors. 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. 44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. 45 And when they found him not,… Read the whole commentary →

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