Luke 2:52
As the years passed, Jesus continued to become wiser and he grew taller. God and people continued to approve of him more and more.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:26The boy Samuel continued to grow up, and the things that he did pleased Yahweh and the people.
Luke 1:80Later, Zechariah’s son grew up and became spiritually strong. Then he lived in a desolate region until he began to preach to the Israeli people.
Acts 7:9“ You know that Jacob’s older sons became jealous because their father favored their younger brother Joseph. So they sold him to merchants/traders who took him [MTY] to Egypt. There he became a slave of an official who lived there. But God helped Joseph.
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 →